1984.374: Guanyin Sutra with an Illustrated Frontispiece (Guanshiyin pusa pumenpin jing)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1984.374
- Title
- Guanyin Sutra with an Illustrated Frontispiece (Guanshiyin pusa pumenpin jing)
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Saddharma-pundarika-sutra
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- handscroll
- Date
- dated 1423
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201519
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock-printed accordion-fold book mounted as a handscroll; ink on paper, with punctuation and Japanese readings of Chinese characters brush-written in red and black inks
- Dimensions
- frontispiece: 27.4 x 44.1 cm (10 13/16 x 17 3/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
- Accession Year
- 1984
- Object Number
- 1984.374
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Marsha Weidner, ed., Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850, exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, Kansas, 1994), pp. 309-311, cat. 39
Verification Level
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