Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 207

This bodhisattva can be identified as Avalokiteshvara by the small sculpture of a Buddha on his headdress and by the vessel he holds in his right hand. The shape of this vessel, particularly its bird’s-head top, typifies metalwork and ceramics produced in China in the late seventh and early eighth centuries.

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin), Gilt bronze, China

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