- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1940.235
- Title
- Seated Bodhisattva Guanyin
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- figurine, sculpture
- Date
- Wanli period, 1588
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen
- Period
- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/205861
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli shiliu nian zhi" on the base
- Dimensions
- H. 19.1 x W. 10.2 x D. 7 cm (7 1/2 x 4 x 2 3/4 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Samuel C. Davis
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- 1940.235
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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32Q: 2740 Buddhist II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/29/2021 - 07/17/2022
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