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Kwanum

Kwanum’s enormous size – he is known as bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, or Guanyin – accentuates his importance. Beneath
that overwhelming and richly attired figure, the boy Sudhana appears in the corner as a small, humble supplicant. He has come to ask the god questions.

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Publisher

  • Rijksmuseum

Type of item

  • hanging scroll

Medium

  • On loan from the Asian Art Society in The Netherlands

Publisher

  • Rijksmuseum

Type of item

  • hanging scroll

Medium

  • On loan from the Asian Art Society in The Netherlands

Providing institution

  • Rijksmuseum

Aggregator

  • Rijksmuseum

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
  • http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Rights

  • Public Domain
  • Publiek Domein

Creation date

  • 1300 - 1400
  • 1300/1400
  • 1300/1400

Place-Time

  • 14th century

Places

  • Korea
  • urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.1653
  • China
  • China
  • urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.403
  • South Korea

Identifier

  • http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.1916
  • AK-MAK-492

Extent

  • height 130.0 cm
  • width 60.0 cm
  • height 12 cm
  • width 67 cm
  • depth 12 cm

Format

  • silk
  • ink
  • dye
  • Silk

Language

  • nl

Is part of

  • collectie: China (collectie)
  • collectie: Korea (collectie)

Providing country

  • Netherlands

Collection name

  • 90402_M_NL_Rijksmuseum

First time published on Europeana

  • 2014-05-27T13:02:58.020Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2018-03-17T13:00:39.358Z

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