Guanyin

Unidentified Sui Dynasty maker, Chinese, 581–618

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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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