Chinese Sculpture c.500 - 1500
15 October - 15 November, 2014
This exhibition features twenty-two masterpieces of Chinese sculpture in stone, marble, gilt bronze and wood.
Gilt bronze Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)
Tang period, inscribed with date corresponding to 651
This gilt-bronze figure represents Avalokiteshvara, also known as Guanyin. According to the inscription on the reverse, it was commissioned by a seventh-century emperor as one of a set of six figures, as thanksgiving for rain and the passing of the plague.
Height: 30.8cm