Nine-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

Object Details

• Provenance

  From 1923

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop from Luoyang, China in 1923. [1]

  Note:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record. The sculpture was transferred from the Bishop Study Collection to the Freer Study Collection in 1984.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Origin

  China

• Credit Line

  Acquired under the guidance of the Carl Whiting Bishop expedition

• Type

  Sculpture

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1910s, 1640s

• Place

  China

• Topic

  Art, Chinese Art, Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911), Avalokite?svara (Buddhist deity), Carl Whiting Bishop collection, Lotus, Stone, Bodhisattva, Kalasa, Guanyin

• Culture

  Buddhists, Chinese

• Object Type

  Sculpture