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| Keywords: Chinese - Seated Guanyin (Kuan-yin) Bodhisattva - Walters 25256 - Detail B.jpg This late Ming dynasty dry-lacquer sculpture is an image of the bodhisattva Guanyin an enlightened being venerated in Chinese Buddhism as an embodiment of compassion Called a Water-moon Guanyin or Guanyin sitting in Royal Ease this theme and its iconography derive from textual inspiration found in the Avatamsaka Sutra the central text of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism and indigenous Chinese traditions The dry lacquer technique was popular but examples of this size and degree of refinement are rare late 14th-15th century dry lacquer gold and paint cm 137 2 78 7 58 4 accession number 25 256 4483 C T Loo Co Paris Doris Duke October 7 1937 by purchase Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Walters Art Museum Gift of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Southeast Asian Art Collection 2006 place of origin China Walters Art Museum license Seated Guanyin - Walters 25256 | ||||
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