Statue
C112
Location: On Display in the Asia Galleries
From: China | Shaanxi (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Asian
Remove From My Finds -
Object Number
C112
Current Location
Asia Galleries - On Display
Culture
Chinese | Buddhist
Provenience
China | Shaanxi (uncertain)
Period
Tang Dynasty
Date Made
8th Century CE
Section
Asian
Materials
Limestone | Paint | Gold Leaf
Technique
Carved | Painted | Gilded
Iconography
Ta Shih Chih? | Bodhisattva
Description
Grey limestone statue of a Bodhisattva in flowing robes with scarves and ornaments. He stands on a lotus base. There is a vase in the headdress. The lower portion of the arms are both missing. There are traces of red, blue and green paint and gold leaf. C111 and C112 are a pair and were most likely made by the same artist.
Credit Line
Purchased from C. T. Loo, 1915
Other Number
Getz 12 - Other Number
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
Abe, Stanley K., Alan Chong, and Noriko Murai. "Collecting Chinese Sculpture: Paris, New York, Boston." Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia . (2009): 432-442. See: pg. 438, Fig. 9
View related objects
Trubner, Henry. The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty . Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1957. See: Plate 34, p. 19
View related objects
Bachhofer, Ludwig. A Short History of Chinese Art . New York: Pantheon, 1946. See: #66 a,b. p. 74-5
View related objects
Jayne, Horace H. "The Chinese Collections of The University Museum: A Handbook of the Principal Objects ." The University Museum Bulletin 9, no. 2-3. (1941): 9-50. See: Pg. 18, Fig. 13
View related objects
Jayne, Horace H. "Chinese Art at the University Museum." Parnassus 11, no. 1. (01 Jan 1939).
View related objects
Bachhofer, Ludwig. "Zur Geschichte der chinesischen Plastik vom VIII-XIV Jahrhundert." Chinesische Plastik 14. (1938). See: Illustration
View related objects
The Romance of Chinese Art . Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1936. Page/Fig./Plate: 65-82View related objects
Jayne, Horace H. "The Museum's Loan to Burlington House ( for International Exhibition of Chinese Art held in London 1935-36) ." The University Museum Bulletin 6, no. 1. (1935): 17-21. See: pl. VI
View related objects
Royal Academy of Arts. Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art . London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1935. See: Pg. 205, No. 2397, Pg. 219, 2397 (illustration)
View related objects
"Two Chinese Sculptures of the T'ang Dynasty ." The University Museum Bulletin 2, no. 4. (1931): 119-123. Page/Fig./Plate: 119-123
View related objects
Siren, Osvald. Histoire des Arts Anciens de la Chine . 3. Bruxelles: G. Van Oest, 1930. Page/Fig./Plate: 119-123, Plates 6, 7
View related objects
Springer, Anton. "Die ostasiatische Kunst." Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte 6. (1929): 435068. Page/Fig./Plate: 109
View related objects
Siren, Osvald. Chinese sculpture from the fifth to the fourteenth century; over 900 specimens in stone, bronze, lacquer and wood, principally from northern China
View related objects
Glaser, Curt. "Ostasiatische Plastik." Die Kunst des Ostens XI. (1925). See: Plate 79 A and B, p. 56
View related objects
Ashton, Leigh. An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Sculpture
View related objects
Bishop, Carl W. "Notes on Chinese Statuary ." The Museum Journal VII, No. 3. (1916): 152-177. See: No. 12
View related objects
Getz, John. The University Museum Exhibition of Oriental Art
View related objects
"Two Early Chinese Statues." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 24, No. 128. (1913): 106-110. See: Plate I
View related objects
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org .
