• Title: 觀音頭, Head of Guanyin, Guanyin tou, Avalokiteśvara
• Creator Identity: unknown Chinese
• Creator Role: sculptor
• Creation Location: China--Longmen
• Historical Period: Late Northern Wei Period
• Style/period/group/movement: Late Northern Wei style
• Measurements: H: 47.6 W: 19.3 D: 23.3 cm
• Materials: stone
• Subject Matter: devotional icon, Avalokiteśvara
• Iconographic features:
  • Head number: 1 type: regular mood: 1-calm
• Textual Sources (1): 0262
• Note: The head of Guanyin was removed from its original location (Longmen Cave-temple site).
• Current location: Freer Gallery of Art
• Repository information: Freer Gallery of Art
  • Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
  • Museum resource: Freer Gallery of Art
  • Object code: F1913.71
• Image: Freer Gallery of Art

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