1924.65.23: Head and Torso possibly of an Eleven-Headed Avalokiteshvara
Sculpture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1924.65.23
- Title
- Head and Torso possibly of an Eleven-Headed Avalokiteshvara
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- probably 12th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China, Inner Mongolia (Nei Menggu), Khara Khoto
- Period
- Xixia kingdom, 1032-1227
- Culture
- Central Asian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/210761
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Sun-dried clay with traces of pigment (including blue pigment on the hair)
- Dimensions
- 58.5 x 18 cm (23 1/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, First Fogg Expedition to China (1923-1924)
- Accession Year
- 1924
- Object Number
- 1924.65.23
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Deborah Klimburg-Salter, The Silk Route and The Diamond Path, exh. cat., Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery (Los Angeles, 1982), p. 119 and p. 113; fig. 36
- Robert N. Linrothe, "New Delhi and New England: Old Collections of Tangut Art", Orientations, Orientations Magazine Ltd. (Hong Kong, April 1996), vol. 27, no. 4, p. 38, fig. 15
Verification Level
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