| Object Number |
C444 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Chinese | Buddhist |
| Provenience |
China | Hebei | Xiangtangshan |
| Period |
Northern Qi Dynasty |
| Date Made |
Northern Qi Dynasty |
| Section |
Asian |
| Materials |
Stone |
| Iconography |
Bodhisattva Head |
| Description |
Stone head of bodhisattva. Hard dark stone. Life size. Narrow oval face with half-closed eyes and tiny mouth; no urna; long ears with pierced lobes and earrings; three peaked headdress with tassels partly missing. |
| Height |
43 cm |
| Width |
25.5 cm |
| Depth |
23 cm |
| Credit Line |
Purchased from Worch of Paris, 1914 |
| Other Number |
Getz 20 - Other Number |
Current & Past Exhibitions
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| Jayne, Horace H. "The Chinese Collections of The University Museum: A Handbook of the Principal Objects." The University Museum Bulletin 9, no. 2-3. (1941): 9-50. See: p. 61 |
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| Siren, Osvald. Chinese sculpture from the fifth to the fourteenth century; over 900 specimens in stone, bronze, lacquer and wood, principally from northern China. London: E. Benn, Ltd., 1925. See: pg. 129-130, Plate 475C |
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| Getz, John. The University Museum Exhibition of Oriental Art. Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1916. Page/Fig./Plate: 184 no.20 |
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| Bishop, Carl W. "Two Sculptured Chinese Heads." The Museum Journal V, no. 3. (1914): 136-140. Page/Fig./Plate: 136-140 |
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| University of Pennsylvania, Office of the President. Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Art of the Far East. Philadelphia: 1914. See: No. 12 |
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| Jayne, Horace F. "Appendix II." The University Museum Bulletin IX, no. 2-3. (1941): 58-62. See: p. 61 |
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