Bulletin, Issues 55-57The Museum, 1983 - China |
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... Kuan - yin is uncommonly large in terms of extant metal sculpture and reflects the same unusual elongation of Wu Yüeh stone sculpture . The interpretation of the body proportions , stance , implements , adornments of the stone Kuan ...
... Kuan - yin is uncommonly large in terms of extant metal sculpture and reflects the same unusual elongation of Wu Yüeh stone sculpture . The interpretation of the body proportions , stance , implements , adornments of the stone Kuan ...
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... Kuan - yin has been published by Hugo Munsterberg , Chinese Buddhist Bronzes ( Rutland / Vermont , 1967 ) , pls . 56 : a , b and Julia Murray , " The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , " Orientations , vol . 12 , no . 5 ( May , 1982 ) , p ...
... Kuan - yin has been published by Hugo Munsterberg , Chinese Buddhist Bronzes ( Rutland / Vermont , 1967 ) , pls . 56 : a , b and Julia Murray , " The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , " Orientations , vol . 12 , no . 5 ( May , 1982 ) , p ...
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... Kuan - yin Bodhisattva , front view . Gilt bronze . Wu Yüeh Kingdom : mid - tenth century . Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond . ( Photograph courtesy Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Rich- mond . ) Kuan - yin Bodhisattva , back view ...
... Kuan - yin Bodhisattva , front view . Gilt bronze . Wu Yüeh Kingdom : mid - tenth century . Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond . ( Photograph courtesy Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Rich- mond . ) Kuan - yin Bodhisattva , back view ...
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animals antlers appear barrow beak-heads Bei Dao bird black-painted Bodhisattva body bronze Buddha Buddhist burial carved central century B.C. Ch'ien Liu Chavannes China Chinese Confucian crown cultural Dai Zhen dated decorative dragons Eastern Antiquities Emperor feline figure frontal Fu Xi fur-trimmings gold plaques griffon heads Hangchou headdress heavily stylized Hopei horse Hsiung-nu Hua-yen hybrid beast Ibid images imperial Inner Mongolia inscription Issyk Khitan Kuan-yin kurgan landscape Liao dynasty Liaoning literati Manchu Mongolia monk motif mountains mythic Neo-Confucian nomadic officials omens Pagoda Parinirvana pattern Pazaryk Photograph courtesy Plate poetry poets political portents predator Rect reign represented ribbons Round Ø Rudenko sculpture Scythian art Scytho-Siberian seal Sekino Shih Siberian Treasure silk Sitting lion soutache stone Sung symbolic Ta-t'ung Temple tiger Ting-hsien tomb tradition tree ts'ê Type Virginia Museum Wang Wu Shrines Wu Yüeh Wu-t'ai-shan Yin and Yang Zhu Xi