Seated Guanyin Artist: Unknown

11th–12th century

Asian Art

On view, 2nd floor, Asian Art

Medium

Gray limestone with traces of pigment

Dimensions

17 1/2 × 12 × 9 in. (44.5 × 30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts

Accession Number

1930.246

Geography

China

Culture

Chinese

Period

Liao dynasty (916–1125) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Yamanaka & Co. New York; purchased in 1930 by the Associates in Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 77, 79, fig. 66.
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 288, ill.
  • Mimi Gardner Gates, The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale, exh. cat. (New York: China House Gallery, 1982), 57–58, no. 21, ill.
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 204, no. 410, ill.
  • Osvald Sirén, "The Chinese Marble Bust in the Rietberg Museum," Artibus Asiae 25, no. 1 (1962): 15, fig. 8.
  • Osvald Sirén, "Chinese Sculptures of the Sung, Liao and Chin Dynasties," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 14 (1942): 45–64, pl. 6:1.
  • Associates in Fine Arts, Yale University, "Handbook: A Description of the Gallery of Fine Arts and the Collections," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 5, nos. 1–3 (1931).
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

sculpture

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