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Guanyin (Avalokitesvara)
Guanyin (Avalokitesvara)

Guanyin (Avalokitesvara)

Date8th century
Object number53.79
Exhibition HistoryDayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, Chinese Gold and Silver from the Tang Dynasty in American Collections, Nov.3, 1984-Sept. 22, 1985 (New York, NY, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Feb. 5 - Apr. 21, 1985; Northampton, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, June 1 - July 14, 1985; and Birmingham Museum of Art)Published References"Chinese Art Recently Acquired by American Museums," in the Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, Vol. 7 (1953), p. 84-86, illus no. 22. "Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 160
Credit LinePurchased from the bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Stewart Downey
Dimensions10 3/8 x 2 3/16 x 3 1/2 in. (26.4 x 5.5 x 8.89 cm) Overall: 11 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (28.9 x 5 1/2 x 8.9cm)
MediumBronze with gilt
Thousand-armed, eleven-headed Guanyin
Chinese
16th century
Object number: 33.821
Standing Figure of the Bodhisattva Guanyin
Chinese
AD 675
Object number: 2001.1074
Photo: iocolor, LLP
Chinese
16th - 17th century
Object number: 48.53
Bronze Avalokitesvara
Chinese
ca. 8th century
Object number: 76.301
Photo: iocolor, LLP
Chinese
485
Object number: 48.177
Chinese
late 3rd century B.C.-early 3rd century A.D.
Object number: 45.14.B
Chinese
early 5th-late 6th Century
Object number: 38.13
Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Chinese
15th century
Object number: 59.59
Figure of a Bodhisattva
Chinese
5th-6th century
Object number: SC98.59
Celestial figure
Chinese
2nd-5th century
Object number: SC98.60
Apsarase:  Figure Holding Leaf
Chinese
617-906
Object number: 41.85.1