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Keywords: Chinese - Seated Guanyin (Kuan-yin) Bodhisattva - Walters 25256 (2).jpg This late Ming dynasty dry-lacquer sculpture is an image of the bodhisattva Guanyin an enlightened being venerated in Chinese Buddhism as an embodiment of compassion Called a Water-moon Guanyin or Guanyin sitting in Royal Ease this theme and its iconography derive from textual inspiration found in the Avatamsaka Sutra the central text of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism and indigenous Chinese traditions The dry lacquer technique was popular but examples of this size and degree of refinement are rare late 14th-15th century dry lacquer gold and paint cm 137 2 78 7 58 4 accession number 25 256 4483 C T Loo Co Paris Doris Duke October 7 1937 by purchase Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Walters Art Museum Gift of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Southeast Asian Art Collection 2006 place of origin China <gallery> File Chinese - Seated Guanyin Kuan-yin Bodhisattva - Walters 25256 jpg </gallery> Walters Art Museum license Seated Guanyin - Walters 25256
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