Frontispiece and dated inscription (leaves 1-6)
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Frontispiece and dated inscription (leaves 1-6)
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.46
Title
Guanyin Chapter from an Illustrated Lotus Sutra (Miaofa lianhua jing Guanshiyin pusa pumenpin)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Miao-fa lien-hua ching Kuan-shih-yin p'u-sa p'u-men-p'in
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript
Date
dated to 1432
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/209213

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Accordion-fold book; gold ink on indigo-dyed paper; palace copy
Dimensions
each page: H. 33.9 x L. 12.1 cm (13 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
full length: H. 33.9 x L. 1377.6 cm (13 3/8 x 542 3/8 in.= 45 ft. 2 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Alan Priest
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.46
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marsha Weidner, ed., Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850, exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, Kansas, 1994), pp. 313-315, cat. 41
  • Eugene Wang, Sound Observer and Ways of Representing Presences, Presence in Images: the Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects, ed. Robert Maniura and Rupert Shepherd, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT, 2006), 259-278
  • Francesca Herndon-Consagra, Reflections of the Buddha, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MO, 2011-2012), pp. 36-37 (installation image, detail); p. 45, no. 24

Exhibition History

  • Chinese Painting and Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/17/1991 - 01/26/1992
  • Reflections of the Buddha, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 09/09/2011 - 03/10/2012

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