Object Number | C72 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Chinese | Buddhist |
Provenience | China |
Period | Qing Dynasty |
Date Made | 18th Century |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Bronze | Pigment | Gilt |
Technique | Painted | Gilt |
Iconography | Samantabhadra | Elephant |
Description | Statuette. Partially gilt bronze image of Samantabhadra, one of the four great Bodhisattvas of the Tantric school. He is shown holding a scroll, and is seated on an elephant with the left foot extended. This manner of representing the foot is symbolic of a twofold nature, one celestial, the other terrestrial. Painted gilt. |
Credit Line | Purchased from Spink & Son, 1914 |
Other Number | Getz 97 - Other Number | A1495 - Old Museum Number | 3 - Field No SF |
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