Cleveland Museum of Art
Bodhisattva Guanyin
- Date
- 581–618
- Medium
- gilt bronze
- Culture
- China, Sui dynasty (581-618)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 137281
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Portable Buddhist figures and objects like this gilt bronze had a variety of uses. They could have been carried in religious processions. Others could serve as donations, souvenirs, or votive items in the context of pilgrimages to religious sites. Their miniature size also made them appropriate for placement on private altars or shrines for personal devotion. Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, is seated in the lalitasana pose, at royal ease with one leg tucked and one leg hanging down.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. John Lyon Collyer in memory of her mother, Mrs. G. M. G. Forman
- Provenance
- ?–1962: Mrs. John Lyon [Georgia Forman Elliott] Collyer [1898–1994], given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1962–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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