Eleven-Headed, Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara)
c. 1500
Maker Unknown
Indian and Southeast Asian Art
Eleven-Headed, Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara), c. 1500. Western Tibet. Opaque watercolor and ink on cotton; overall: 94.6 x 69.2 cm (37 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1982.147
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- opaque watercolor and ink on cotton
- Medium
- opaque, watercolor, ink, cotton
- Dimensions
- Overall: 94.6 x 69.2 cm (37 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1982.147
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies, Himalayan art rotation, <em>The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes</em>. Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery of UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (November 7, 1982-January 2, 1983); Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY (February 6-April 3, 1983); National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC (April 28-June 30,1983)., <em>Selections from the Tibetan Collection</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 25, 1993)., <em>Main Himalayan Rotation (Gallery 239)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 18, 2013-June 30, 2014).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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