Shrine
Object Number: | 29-156-7 |
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Current Location: | Collections Storage |
Culture: | Buddhist Japanese |
Provenience: | Japan |
Period: | Edo Period (uncertain) Meiji Period (uncertain) |
Date Made: | 18th Century - 19th Century |
Early Date: | 1700 |
Late Date: | 1899 |
Section: | Asian |
Materials: | Lacquer Wood Brass |
Technique: | Lacquered Chased |
Iconography: | 1,000 Armed Kannon Kannon |
Height: | 17.14 cm |
Credit Line: | Gift of Miss Lydia T. Morris, 1916 |
Other Number: | LE489 - Other Number |
Description
Black lacquer shrine with chased brass trimmings. This slender oval shrine contains a 1000-armed Kannon, bodhisattva of compassion, standing on a lotus base. The ring on the top of the shrine is for suspending it from a belt. The interior is gilded.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Buddhism: History and Diversity of a Great Tradition (12 Dec 1985 - 21 Oct 2012) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Buddhist Asia (21 Oct 2012 - 01 Apr 2022) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Loan Exhibition - Objects Used in Religious Ceremonies, and Charms and Implements For Divination (16 Apr 1892) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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