Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Sanskrit Avalokiteshvara)

Object Details

• Description

  Standing Bodhisattva Guanyin (Sanskrit Avalokitesvara). In four pieces.

  Crack in the foot.

  Surface: gilded; black, green and reddish patina on worn areas.

• Provenance

  To 1913

  Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1913 [1]

  From 1913 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1913 [2]

  From 1920

  The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 408, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Promise of Paradise (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

  Promise of Paradise: Early Chinese Buddhist Sculpture (December 1, 2012 to January 3, 2016)

  Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

  Stone Sculpture, Buddhist Bronze, and Chinese Painting (May 2, 1923 to February 25, 1956)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  probably Shaanxi province, China

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Sculpture

• On View

  Freer Gallery 17: Promise of Paradise

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  600s, 500s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Shaanxi province, China

• Topic

  Gilding, Bronze, Sui dynasty (581 - 618), Art, Mandorla, Chinese Art, Kundika, Avalokite?svara (Buddhist deity), Bodhisattva, Metal-work, Guanyin, Charles Lang Freer collection, Sculpture, Willow tree, Kalasa

• Culture

  Buddhists, Chinese

• Object Type

  Sculpture

• On View

  Yes