• Title: 十一面觀音, Eleven-headed Guanyin, Shiyimian Guanyin, Ekādaśamukhā
• Creator Identity: unknown Chinese
• Creator Role: sculptor
• Creation Location: China--Chang'an
• Historical Period: Tang Dynasty
• Style/period/group/movement: High Tang style
• Measurements: H: 108.8 W: 31.7 D: 15.3 cm
• Materials: stone relief
• Subject Matter: Ekādaśamukhā , devotional icon
• Iconographic features:
  • Head number: 11 type: conical configuration: two apsarasas at top right and left mood: 1-calm
  • Hand number: 2 right: holding lotus
  • Posture: standing
  • Pedestal: double lotus pedestal
• Textual Sources (2): 1070, 1071
• Note: The sculpture, part of a group that adorned a pillar, the Qibaotai 七寶臺, was originally commissioned by Empress Wu at Guangzaisi 光宅寺, Chang'an (Xi'an).
• 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: F1909.98
• Image: Freer Gallery of Art

Return to List