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Book Review
Guanyin, a Masterpiece Revealed
12/1986 | 1005 | 128
Pages: 911
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Reviewer:
Rawson, Jessica (Rawson, Jessica)
Subjects
dates:
1100-1199 / 1200-1299
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
China / England / London
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Wood sculpture / Guanyin
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Guanyin, a Masterpiece Revealed | author: Kerr, Rose , author: Larson, John
Short Notice
Recent Museum Acquisition:Gilt Bronze Figure of Kuan-yin (British Museum)
04/1971 | 817 | 113
Pages: 216-217
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Subjects
dates:
1970-1979
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London / China
subjects:
Art museums / Acquisitions
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Guanyin
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
63. Figure of Kuan-vin. Chinese, T'ang Dynasty (618-906 A. D.) Gilt Bronze; Height of Figure, 14 cm. (British Museum.)
Supplement
Acquisitions of Works of Art by Museums and Galleries: Supplement
05/1965 | 746 | 107
Pages: 277-285
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Subjects
artists:
Rubens, Peter Paul
artists:
Cortona, Pietro da
dates:
1960-1969
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
museums and institutions:
Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Great Britain
subjects:
Art museums / Acquisitions / Supplements
subjects:
Metalwork / Silverwork / Furniture
subjects:
Textiles / Tapestries
subjects:
Gobelins tapestries
subjects:
Barberini Tapestry Manufactory
subjects:
Gobelins Manufactory
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Wood sculpture / Guanyin
subjects:
Iranian / Sassanian / Metalwork
Illustrations
Attributed works:
85. The Campaign against Licinius, Sea Battle, after Pietro da Cortona. Tapestry. (Philadelphia Museum of Art.)
Attributed works:
86. The Marriage of Constantine, after Peter Paul Rubens. Tapestry. (Philadelphia Museum of Art.)
Attributed works:
87. Detail from The Battle of the Milvian Bridge, after Peter Paul Rubens. Tapestry. (Philadelphia Museum of Art.)
Attributed works:
89. Constantine Destroying the Idols, after Pietro da Cortona. Tapestry. (Philadelphia Museum of Art.)
Attributed works:
90. The Entry into Rome, after Peter Paul Rubens. Tapestry. (Philadelphia Museum of Art.)
Attributed works:
91. The Cheltenham Chandelier, Attributed to John Giles. Presented to Cheltenham Parish Church, 1738. (Temple Newsam House.)
Attributed works:
93. Race Cup, Made by Holmes and Dumée. 1774. (Temple Newsam House.)
Non-western art unattributed:
82. Plate. Sasanian [Sassanian], Fourth-Fifth Century A. D. (?). Silver-Gilt; Diameter, 21.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.)
Non-western art unattributed:
83. Brush Pot. Late Ming (c.1600). Lacquer; Height, 19.8 cm. (British Museum.)
Non-western art unattributed:
84. Kuan Yin. Sung Dynasty, Twelfth Century A. D. Wood; Height, 55.9 cm. (British Museum.)
Western art unattributed:
88. Constantine Fighting the Lion, after Pietro da Cortona. Tapestry. (Philadelphia Museum of Art.)
Western art unattributed:
92. Bureau-Cabinet Inscribed 'J. W.', c.1780. (Temple Newsam House.)
Western art unattributed:
94. Settee. From Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire. c.1735. Mahogany. (Temple Newsam House.)
Supplement
Acquisitions of Works of Art by Museums and Galleries: Supplement
04/1965 | 745 | 107
Pages: 221-228
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Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
artists:
Sutherland, Graham
dates:
1960-1969
museums and institutions:
British Museum, London, Great Britain
museums and institutions:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, United States
museums and institutions:
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, United States
museums and institutions:
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, United States
subjects:
Supplements / Acquisitions / Art museums
subjects:
Japanese sculpture / Buddhist / Gods
subjects:
Guanyin
subjects:
Roman (ancient) sculpture
subjects:
Islamic / Metalwork / Jewellery
subjects:
Nigerian sculpture / Masks
Illustrations
Attributed works:
76. Three Standing Forms in a Garden, by Graham Sutherland. Signed and Dated 1951. Canvas, 133.4 by 115.6 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Arts.)
Attributed works:
77. La Femme au Fauteuil. by Pablo Picasso. Signed and Dated 1927. Canvas, 73 by 65 cm. (Minneapolis Institute of Arts.)
Non-western art unattributed:
67. Nine-Faced Kannon. Japanese, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century. Gilded Bronze; Height, 77 cm. (British Museum.)
Non-western art unattributed:
68. Another View of the Nine-Faced Kannon Reproduced in Fig.67. [Nine-Faced Kannon. Japanese, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century. Gilded Bronze; Height, 77 cm. (British Museum.)]
Non-western art unattributed:
69. Detail of the Head of the Nine-Faced Kannon Reproduced in Fig.67. [Nine-Faced Kannon. Japanese, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century. Gilded Bronze; Height, 77 cm. (British Museum.)]
Non-western art unattributed:
70. Detail of Front of the Nine-Faced Kannon Reproduced in Fig.67. [Nine-Faced Kannon. Japanese, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century. Gilded Bronze; Height, 77 cm. (British Museum.)]
Non-western art unattributed:
71. Nine-Faced Kannon. Japanese, Early Eighth Century. Sandalwood; Height, 37.4 cm. (Hōryūji Temple, Japan.)
Non-western art unattributed:
72. Rear View of the Nine-Faced Kannon Reproduced in Fig.67. [Nine-Faced Kannon. Japanese, Thirteenth-Fourteenth Century. Gilded Bronze; Height, 77 cm. (British Museum.)]
Non-western art unattributed:
74. Bracelet Ornamented with Doves. Gold. Persian (Daylaman), Tenth-Eleventh Century A. D. (Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.)
Non-western art unattributed:
75. Mask. Western Nigerian. Bronze. (British Museum.)
Western art unattributed:
73. Statue Probably Representing the God Harpocrates. Hellenistic (? From Alexandria), c. First Century A. D. Parian Marble; Height, 71 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.)
Short Notice
The Exhibition of the "Goddess of Mercy" at the Berkeley Galleries
12/1943 | 489 | 83
Pages: 311
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Author:
Bulling, Anneliese (Bulling, Anneliese; Bulling, A.)
Subjects
dates:
1940-1949
places:
China / England
private galleries:
Berkeley Galleries, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Guanyin / Chinese / Chinese Art / Exhibitions
Article
Chinese Wall-Paintings
07/1943 | 484 | 83
Pages: 168-174
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Author:
Cohn, William (Cohn, William)
Subjects
artists:
Tang Yin, 1470-c. 1523
artists:
Qiu Ying, ca. 1494-ca. 1552
dates:
1200-1499
places:
China
subjects:
Frescoes / Tang
subjects:
Ming / Dating
subjects:
Song / Attributions
subjects:
Buddhas / Guanyin
subjects:
Chinese painting / Wall paintings
subjects:
Taoism / Buddhist / Han
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-Chen Wu, the Prince of the North Pole, the Seven Deities of the Northern Dipper, Other Taoist Deities and Attendants. Detail. Sung Period. Height, 314 cm. (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto). Chinese Wall-Paintings
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. B-Another Detail of the Same Fresco as A. Chinese Wall-Paintings
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-The Buddha Enthroned. 15th or 16th Century. 545 by 236 cm. (Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia). Chinese Wall-Paintings
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-Kuanyin with Attendants. Sung Period, 107 by 87 cm. (Berkeley Gallery). Chinese Wall-Paintings
Article
Chinese Art in the Light of Comparative Study-I
07/1941 | 460 | 79
Pages: 2+4-5+8-11
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Author:
Cohn, William (Cohn, William)
Subjects
places:
China
sources:
Confucianism
subjects:
Chinese Art / Chinese / Metalwork / Bronzes / Zhou (Chou) / Han / Song
subjects:
Buddhist / Buddhas / Guanyin
subjects:
Chinese sculpture
subjects:
Tang
subjects:
Art theory / Chinese Art / Influence
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-Sacrificial Vessel for Wine (Yu Type). Early Chou Dynasty (ca. 1000 B. C.). Bronze. Height, 34 cm. (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City) This Example Seems to Show the Next Stage of Development. Balance between Shape And Decoration. The Ornamentation Is Concentrated in Three Narrow Belts, the Outlines Have Become Refined. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-Basin (P'an Type). Middle Chou Dynasty (First Half of First Millennium B. C.). Bronze. Diam. 43.8 cm. (Mr. And Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, London) The Decoration Has Lost Its Symbolic Meaning. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. C-Sacrificial Vessel for Wine (Lei Type). Late Chou Dynasty (ca. 500 B. C.). Bronze. Height, 25 cm. (Messrs. Bluett And Sons, London) Utilitarian Features Begin to Prevail. The Decoration, to a Great Extent Imported from Abroad, Reveals a New Spirit. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. D-Vase (Hu Type). Han Dynasty (First Century, B. C. or A. D.). Bronze, Decorated with Gold And Silver. Height, 35.5 cm. (Mr. C. T. Loo, New York) Utilitarian Shape of Utmost Simplicity. Outward Effects by Decoration with Gold And Silver. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. A-Bodhisattva (Maitreya?). From a Cave at Lung Men. ca. 500 A. D. Stone. Height, 40 cm. (Mr. M. Calmann, Paris) Example of Early Buddhist Art. Spiritualized Abstract Appearance. Symbolic Gesturc. Geometrically Stylized Folds. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. B-One of the Eighteen Lohan. Sung Period. Hard White Pottery with Coloured Glaze. Height, 105 cm. (University Museum, Philadelphia) Favourite Subject of the Sung Period. Verisimilitude And Grandeur of Conception Are United in Classical Harmony. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. C-Bodhisattva from a Cave of the T'ien Lung Shan. T'ang Period. Stone. Height, 110 cm. (Baron von der Heydt, Ascona) Acme of Medieval Sculpture. Full Rotundity of Form. Animation of Attitude. Hip Outward Bent. Body And Clothes Differentiated. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate III. D-Kuanyin. Fourteenth Century. Wood. Height, 80 cm. (Victoria And Albert Museum) Kuanyin in This Posture Is a Subject Which Originated in the T'and Period And Was Also Favoured in the Sung Era. Here Is an Example of the Beginning of Baroque. Picturesque Relaxation, Effects of Light And Shade. Deeply Cut Folds. Chinese Art: A Comparative Study
Non-western art unattributed:
Sacrificial Vessel for Wine (Ho Type). Shang Dynasty (Second Millennium B. C.). Bronze. Height, 74.5 cm. (Mr. Nedzu, Tokyo). Earliest of Chinese Bronze Art, Showing an Already Highly Developed Style. Most Powerful And Vigorous Archaic Shape. Decoration Covers the Whole Surface And Is of Mysterious Religious Meaning. Earliest Known Style in the History of Chinese Bronzes
Article
Two Chinese Wooden Statues
10/1938 | 427 | 73
Pages: 142-143+145-146
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Author:
Bachhofer, Ludwig (Bachhofer, Ludwig)
Subjects
dates:
1150-1199 / 1200-1249
places:
China
places:
Shanxi
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Buddhist / Wood sculpture / Jin (Six Dynasties) / Guanyin
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
A-Avalokitesvara. Dated 1195 a. d. T'ung Wood, with Polychrome Decoration. from Hung Tung Hsien, Shansi. Height 191 cm.; B-Mahastamaprapta. 1195 A. D. T'ung Wood with Polychrome Decoration. From Hung Tung Hsien, Shansi. Height, 189 cm. (Both in the Royal Ontario Museum of Archeology, Toronto). Two Chinese Wooden Statues
Non-western art unattributed:
C-Bodhisattva. About 1200 a. d. Wood. Southern Shansi. Height, 200 cm. (Museum Fuer Voelkerkunde, Munich); D-Back of A. Two Chinese Wooden Statues
Article
A Dated Bodhisattva Image from the Eumorfopoulos Collection
05/1936 | 398 | 68
Pages: 220+225-227+230-231
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Author:
Yetts, W. Perceval (Yetts, W. Perceval; Yetts, Walter Perceval; Yetts, W. Percival; Y., W. P.; Yetts, Perceval; Y., P.; Yetts, W. P.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Eumorfopoulos, George, 1863-1939
dates:
1350-1399
dates:
1930-1939
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
China
places:
England / London
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Buddhist / Buddhas / Bodhisattva / Guanyin
subjects:
Yüan / Amida
subjects:
Chinese Art / Exhibitions
subjects:
Iconography / Mahayana
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. Kuan-Yin. Yüan Dynasty. Wood; Height, 79.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum). A Dated Bodhisattva Image from the Eumorfopoulos Collection
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A-Contents of the Image Reproduced on Plate I (References to the Items are Given in the Text). A Dated Bodhisattva Image from the Eumorfopoulos Collection
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. B-Side View of Plate I. A Dated Bodhisattva Image from the Eumorfopoulos Collection
Article
The Exhibition of Chinese Art. III - The Sculpture
01/1936 | 394 | 68
Pages: 22-23+25-27+29-30
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Author:
Fernald, Helen E. (Fernald, Helen E.)
Subjects
dates:
1930-1939
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Chinese sculpture / Exhibitions
subjects:
Buddhas / Animals / Tang / Anyang
subjects:
Buddhist / Iconography / Guanyin
subjects:
Warring States / Six Dynasties
subjects:
Bronzes / Northern Qi / Song
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate I. A-Kuan-yin. Period of the Five Dynasties. Gilt Bronze; Height. 66.1 cm. (University Museum. Philadelphia); B-Detail of the Same Figure: C-Recumbent Buffalo. About 600 B. C. Bronze: 11.5 by 20 cm. (Mr. Alfred H. Pillsbury, Minneapolis, U. S. A.); D-Carved Slab. Dated A. D. 114. Marble; 88 by 119 cm. (Baron von der Heydt, Berlin). The Exhibition of Chinese Art. III. The Sculpture
Non-western art unattributed:
Plate II. A,B-Bodhisattva Dancing and Guardian King. T'ang Dynasty. Gilt Bronze; Height, 12.2 cm., and 11.2 cm. (Musee Guimet, Paris); C-Lion. Northern Ch'i Dynasty. Stone; Height, 99 cm. (University Museum, Philadelphia); D-Bodhisattva, from T'ien-Lung Shan. T'ang Dynasty. Stone; Height, 125 cm. (Mr. Sadajiro Yamanaka, New York); E-Bodhisattva. One of a Pair. T'ang Dynasty. Stone; Height, 137.3 cm. (University Museum, Philadelphia); F-Bodhisattva, from a Cave at Lung-Men. About A. D. 550. Stone; Height, 40 cm. (Mr. M. Calmann, Paris). The Exhibition of Chinese Art: III-The Sculpture
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