cma-chinese-art:Bodhisattva Guanyin, late 500s-early 600s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtThe a
cma-chinese-art:Bodhisattva Guanyin, late 500s-early 600s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese ArtThe 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.Size: Overall: 138.8 x 38.2 x 27.4 cm (54 5/8 x 15 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.)Medium: sandstone with polychromyhttps://clevelandart.org/art/1962.162 -- source link
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