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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
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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

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