Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva
1368–1424
Maker Unknown
Textiles
Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva, 1368–1424. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Silk and gold thread on silk satin ground, embroidery; overall: 43.8 x 19.5 cm (17 1/4 x 7 11/16 in.); mounted: 56.8 x 31.8 cm (22 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1991.2 The bodhisattva is flanked by two columns, each topped with a makara, a fanciful water creature whose tail becomes lotus scrolls forming an arch over the bodhisattva.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Formatted Medium
- Silk and gold thread on silk satin ground, embroidery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 43.8 x 19.5 cm (17 1/4 x 7 11/16 in.); Mounted: 56.8 x 31.8 cm (22 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Penned on the reverse is a Tibetan inscription that translates as "the Seventh Bodhisattva."
- Departments
- Textiles
- Accession Number
- 1991.2
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- Asian Autumn: New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions, When Silk Was Gold: Central Asian & Chinese Textiles from the Cleveland and Metropolitan Museums of Art, Himalayan Gallery 237 Rotation – November 2016-April 2017, <em>Selected 1991 Acquisitions</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 28-April 26, 1992).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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