Head of Guanyin [Kuanyin] Bodhisattva

Description This head of Guanyin [Kuanyin] has a small Amitabha Buddha in the headdress. The tip of the nose and the ends of the ear lobes are broken off.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as 7th century, T'ang period, from Shansi]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1914