Sujet
Bodhisattva Guanyin, late 500s-early 600s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Bodhisattva Guanyin, late 500s-early 600s. The artistic excellence of this bodhisattva is further reinforced by comparable outstanding Chinese Buddhist sculptures excavated at Qingzhou in Shandong Province in 1996-one of the most sensational and significant archaeological finds of the 20th century. Like related types among the Qingzhou finds, this statute has a gently smiling face and meticulous detailing of splendid jewelry. A noticeable difference, however, is the unique yingluo (mukt hara) worn by the bodhisattva for personal adornment. The somewhat bizarre but imaginative combination of a string of jewels with grotesque animal masks, flying aspara, jade pendants, dragons, and metal ornaments was probably a regional decorative style of Shanxi Province.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F71_308
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
98,1Mo (7,5Mo) / 36,3cm x 67,7cm / 4286 x 8000 (300dpi)