About This Artwork

Japan

Seated Bodhisattva, c. 775

Wood core, dry lacquer, traces of gold leaf
61 x 43.2 x 32.3 cm (24 x 17 x 12 3/4 in.)
Nara period
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1962.356

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

SOC-9148 "100th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition" Nara, Japan 4/22/95-6/4/95.

Publication History

Chinese Art Society of American Museums, 1962.Mayuyama Junkichi. Japanese Art in the West. Tokyo: Mayuyama and Co., Ltd., 1966, fig. 7 page 8.

Nara National Museum, Nihon bukkyô bijutsu meihôten, 1995.

Art Insitute of Chicago: Essential Guide, rev. ed. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009) p.92 and back cover.

James N. Wood, "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide, Revised Edition" (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), p. 74