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Statuette

Object Number:C14
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Chinese
Buddhist
Provenience: China
Period: Ming Dynasty (uncertain)
Qing Dynasty (uncertain)
Date Made: Ming Dynasty - 19th Century
Early Date: 1368
Late Date: 1899
Section:Asian
Materials:Bronze
Iconography:Bodhisattva
Credit Line:Purchased from T. M. Huang, 1913
Other Number:Getz 101 - Other Number
16 - Field No SF
A1507 - Other Number
A1427 - Old Museum Number

Description

Seated bronze bodhisattva. Bronze Bodhisattva image in sedant form on a lotus thalamus. The richly adorned divinity represents one of the numerous Buddhas of the Mahayana school. The encrusted patina shows the old gilding in parts. Right hand damaged.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Exhibition of the Art of the Far East ( Dec 1914) View Objects in Exhibition
Special Exhibition: Classical and Oriental (12 Dec 1913 - 01 Nov 1915) View Objects in Exhibition
Exhibition of Oriental Art (12 Feb 1916) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] Getz, John. 1916. The University Museum Exhibition of Oriental Art.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: No. 101View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] University of Pennsylvania, Office of the President. 1914. Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Art of the Far East.. Philadelphia. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 47 No. 8View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] 1913. The University Museum. Special Exhibition.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pg. 31, No. 16View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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