Statuette

C14

From: China

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number C14
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese | Buddhist
Provenience China
Period Ming Dynasty (uncertain) | Qing Dynasty (uncertain)
Date Made Ming Dynasty - 19th Century
Section Asian
Materials Bronze
Iconography Bodhisattva
Description

Seated bronze bodhisattva. Bronze Bodhisattva image in sedant form on a lotus thalamus. The richly adorned divinity represents one of the numerous Buddhas of the Mahayana school. The encrusted patina shows the old gilding in parts. Right hand damaged.

Credit Line Purchased from T. M. Huang, 1913
Other Number Getz 101 - Other Number | 16 - Field No SF | A1507 - Other Number | A1427 - Old Museum Number

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