Guanyin
Unidentified Sui Dynasty maker, Chinese, 581–618
Sui Dynasty, 581-617
Gilt Bronze
Overall: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Evelyn A. and William B. Jaffe Fund
S.964.173.4
Geography
Place Made: China, East Asia, Asia
Period
500-1000
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact
Research Area
Asia
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
Religion 41.07/Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.06, Buddhism Sex Gender Southeast Asia, Mary Kate Long, Winter 2024
Exhibition History
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 22, 1994-June 22, 1997.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-January 21, 2008.
The Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2008-September 28, 2014.
Publication History
H.F.E. Visser, Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium, p. 53, no. 151.
Alan Priest, Chinese Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alan Priest, New York, 1944, plate LXII.
Provenance
Frank Caro (1904-1980) Chinese Art, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1964.
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