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Maitreya Buddha
Maitreya Buddha

Maitreya Buddha

Date617-906
Object number51.71
Exhibition HistoryPortland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, "Gift to a City: Masterworks from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection in the Seattle Art Museum", cat. # 36Published References"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 58 (b&w) "Gift to a City" exhibition catalogue. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1965, cat. no. 36 Knight, Michael, "East Asian Lacquers in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1992, no. 4, pp. 8-9 Krahl, Regina. "Divine Features in Lacquer" in Chinese Art Through the Eye of Sakamoto Goro: Sculpture. Hong Kong: Sotheby's, 2013, fig. 4, p. 67.
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions14 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 18 in. (36.2 x 29.2 x 45.7cm)
MediumDry lacquer and glass with pigment
Head of a Luohan
Chinese
10th - 12th century
Object number: 40.20
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Japanese
1684 - 1695
Object number: 35.73
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Japanese
ca. 1687 - 95
Object number: 35.74
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Morris Graves
1947
Object number: 2009.52.22
Frame and Beam
1975
Object number: 76.6
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Japanese
18th century
Object number: 40.46
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
John Marshall
2008
Object number: 2009.37.8
Pale Mirror (#207)
1993
Object number: 95.50