遼 鎏金青銅五髻文殊菩薩像|Manjushri, Bodhisattva of Wisdom, with five knots of hair (Wuji wenshu)

Medium

Gilt bronze; lost-wax cast

Dimensions

H. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); W. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); D. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

Classification

Sculpture

Culture & Period

China · Liao dynasty (907–1125)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, Janet Neff Charitable Trust and Christian Humann Gifts; Mrs. Robert Herndon Fife Gift, in memory of her husband; and Seymour Fund, 1967

Accession Number

67.228

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