Jingdezhen: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
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Jingdezhen: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
CHINA, Jiangxi, Jingdezhen; Yuan dynasty
This Avalokitesvara statue, excavated from the western entrance of Dingfu Street in Beijing in 1969, was created in Jingdezhen during the Yuan dynasty.
The Bodhisattva wears a decorative crown with ribbons hanging down to the shoulders and large earrings that suspend from the earlobes. Adorned with an elaborate necklace and hanging beads, a bracelet is also visible on the right wrist. Avalokitesvara wears a stole that covers both shoulders and a long dress with a belt tied around the waist. Glazed in subdued tones of green and beige, the Bodhisattva sits in a posture of royal ease with the right elbow resting on the raised right knee.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 495.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Jingdezhen: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 495.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Jingdezhen: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:495.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Jingdezhen: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 495).
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