- Provenance
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To 1911
Ta Ge Shang, Beijing, to 1911 [1]From 1911 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ta Ge Shang in 1911 [2]From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:
[1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 284, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Ta Ge Shang (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
- Description
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Standing Bodhisattva Lotus Holder Guanyin
Surface: gilded; a reddish patina on worn areas. Green patina and grayish earth incrustation underneath.
Decoration: in relief and engraved. Inscription.
- Inscription(s)
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On the 19th of the 2nd month in the 3rd year of Hsing-ho, the Eastern Wei Dynasty [542 A.D.] Buddhist Liu Fu Ch'u, native of Po-ling, Yao-yang district of Shantung province, had this image of Kuan-yin, the Goddess of Mercy, made in memory of his deceased parents and his living brothers and his wife and children.
The inscription reads: "Hsing-ho san-nien erh-yueh shih-chiu-jih Po-ling Chun Yao-yang Hsien Liu Fu-? wai wang fu mu chi hsiung ti wai ? ? fu ch'i nan nu po nien hsien tsao Kuan hsiang i-ch'u" [Chn]. It can be rendered: "On the 19th day of the second month in the third year of the reign of Hsing-ho [March 31, 541 A.D.], Liu Fu-? of Yao-yang Hsien, Po-ling Chun, had this image of Kuan-yin made for his deceased parents, his [living] brothers, for...husband and wife and children..." Note the date is 541, not 542 as previously stated. Note also that Yao-yang Hsien, Po-ling Chun, is in Hopei province, not Shantung.
- Published References
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- Osvald Siren. Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century: Over 900 Specimens in Stone, Bronze, Lacquer and Wood, Principally from Northern China. 4 vols., London. vol. 2: pl. 205c.
- Chang Qing. Genuine or Forged: Methods of Identifying Forgeries of Chinese Buddhist Sculptures. vol. 36 Washington and Ann Arbor. p. 95, fig. 13.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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