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Two views of the display of Buddhist sculpture
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Standing Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin)
China, late 6th c. Limestone with remains of coloring and gilding.
Inv. Nr. 4000
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Seated Avalokitesvara
China, late 6th c. Gilded bronze.
Inv. Nr. Dlg. 12-1973
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The Buddha Shakyamuni
Tang Dynasty, dated 672. Limestone.
Loan from Museum Reitberg, Zurich.
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Seated Buddha
Tang Dynasty, 7th-8th c. Limestone with traces of coloring.
Inv. Nr. Dlg. 87-1989
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Seated Buddha Amitabha
Tang Dynasty, dated 746. Gray limestone with traces of coloring. The photographs here do not show the base with the Chinese donor inscription by clan elder Du Fuyin and his family in the village of Baozhong.
Pub.: MEAAB, p. 38
Inv. Nr. 1960-4
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Eleven-headed Avalokitesvara
Tang Dynasty, 2nd half 8th c. Gilded bronze. 40 cm.
Pub.: MEAAB, p. 39
Inv. Nr. Dlg. 10-1973
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Head of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara
Tang Dynasty. Limestone with remains of coloring.
Inv. Nr. Dlg. 14-1973
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Votive stele with 93 figures of Buddha
Northern China, late Tang Dynasty, beginning of 10th c. Limestone.
Loan from Museum Reitberg, Zurich
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Kichijo-ten, Gddess of Fortune, Virtue and Beauty
Japan, Heian period, 11th c. Single wood-block carving of Japanese cypress wiht traces of paint.
Inv. Nr. 1974-22
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Standing Guanyin
China, Liao Dynasty, 11th-12th c. Bronze with remains of color and gilding.
Inv. Nr. 5323
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1000-armed Guanyin
China, 11th-12th c. Copper with gilding.
Inv. Nr. Dlg. 64-1988
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Standing Kannon Bosatsu
Japan, Heian period, 1st half 12th c. Joined cypress wood blocks with traces of paint.
Inv. Nr. 1963-30
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Fragment of a Buddha head
Japan, Heian period, 2nd half 12th c. Wood with traces of lacquer coating.
Inv. Nr. 1477
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Wuzhiqi, spirit of the rivers Huai and Guo
Song Dynasty, early 12th c. Cast iron. 39 x 32 x 38 cm.
Pub.: MEAAB, p. 40
Inv. Nr. 1984-510
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The Bodhisattva Guanyin
Song Dynasty, mid-13th c. Wood with remains of coloring.
Loan from Museum Reitberg, Zurich.
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Seated Luohan
Yüan Dynasty, 14th c. Wood with remains of coloring.
Inv. Nr. 1991-9
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Guan Yu, the God of War, attended by Guan Ping (left) and Zhou Cang (rt.)
Early Ming, 15th c. Wood and ivory. 29, 23 and 22.9 cm.
Pub.: MEAAB, p. 37
Inv. Nr. 1991-8a,b,c
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Seated Luohan
Ming Dynasty, early 16th c. Light gray clay and polychrome glaze. 93 cm.
Pub.: MEAAB, p. 41
Inv. Nr. 1959-3
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Dai-Seishi Bosatsu
Japan, Edo period, 1705. Wood core, gold paint over black lacquer coating.
Inv. Nr. Dlg. 134-1996
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