Figure of Guanyin, anonymous, 1050 - 1200

Identification

Title(s)

Figure of Guanyin

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-498

Description

Avalokitesvara (Guanyin), zittend met in de linkerhand een wensjuweel en met de rechter een gebaar van zegening makend.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

1050 - 1200

School / style

Liao-dynasty (907-1125)

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

gild

Measurements

height 10.8 cm × width 5.6 cm × depth 4.4 cm

Subject

Who

Guan Yin

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Gerrit-Jan Verburgt bequest, 1969)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; the dealer Ratton, Paris, before 1925;{Note RMA.} …; collection of Gerrit-Jan Verburgt (1871-1926), The Hague, 1926;{Note RMA.} his widow Carolina Geertruida Verburgt-Kramers (1876-1968), The Hague, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1969;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 54-55, cat.nr. 30
Oosterse schatten : 4000 jaar Aziatische Kunst [ : 1 1954a], cat.nr. 121
Catalogus der tentoonstelling van Aziatische kunst in particuliere en openbare collecties in Nederland, cat.nr. 65
Catalogue of the international exhibition of chinese art 1935-'6 [ : 1 1935a], cat.nr. 1021
Chineesche kunst
Tentoonstelling van Chineesche kunst [ : 1 1925], cat.nr. 110
Angela Howard, 'Buddhist sculpture of the Liao Dynasty', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern antiquities (1984) 56, p. 1-37, pl. 37.
Cat. Legaat Verburgt, nr. 7. (Bulletin van de Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst. Derde Serie 19-20 (1970))

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