Guanyin of the Water Moon

Object Details

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965)

• Provenance

  1930

  Yamanaka and Company, New York, New York 1930 [1]

  From 1930

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Yamanaka and Company, New York in 1930 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Origin

  Dunhuang, Gansu province, China

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  900s

• Name

  Yamanaka and Co.

• Place

  Gansu province, China, Dunhuang

• Topic

  Art, Mandorla, Moon, Chinese Art, Outer space, Amitabha Buddha, Kundika, Northern Song dynasty (960 - 1127), Kalasa, Halo, Guanyin

• Culture

  Buddhists, Chinese

• Object Type

  Paintings