About the Artwork
Head of a Bodhisattva
between 960 and 1279
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Chinese
Chinese
Wood
Overall: 35 inches (88.9 cm) Overall (without headdress): 21 inches (53.3 cm)
Sculpture
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase
27.378
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
(Dr. Friedrich Perzynski, Rissen, Holstein, Germany)
1927-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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March, Benjamin. "A Chinese Head," Bulletin of the DIA 9, no. 2 (November 1927): pp. 15-17 (ill.).
University Liggett Antiques Show. Exh. cat., University Liggett School. Grosse Pointe Woods, June 13-16, 1979, p. 110.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Chinese, Head of a Bodhisattva, between 960 and 1279, wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 27.378.
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