Eleven-Headed Guanyin
1100–1200
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Eleven-Headed Guanyin, 1100–1200. China, late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) - Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Wood with polychromy and cut gold; overall: 218.5 cm (86 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1981.53 This Guanyin is carved from a single block of willow (genus Salix sp.).
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- wood with polychromy and cut gold
- Medium
- wood, polychromy, cut, gold
- Dimensions
- Overall: 218.5 cm (86 in.)
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1981.53
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1981
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 238 Chinese Ceramics
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