Guanyin
Guanyin is a bodhisattva, a Buddhist deity who has achieved enlightenment but chooses to remain on Earth to help people. There are many blanc de Chine figures of Guanyin, since the deity was widely venerated in Fujian, the production centre for this white porcelain.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- Tachet, Claude Francois
Type of item
- figure
- Figure
Medium
- On loan from the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- Tachet, Claude Francois
Type of item
- figure
- Figure
Medium
- On loan from the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst
Providing institution
Aggregator
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
- c.1675 - c.1699
Place-Time
- fourth quarter 17th century
Places
- China
- China
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.403
- Dehua
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.45112
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.1245
- AK-MAK-594
Extent
- height 51 cm
- length 15 cm
- width 12.5 cm
Format
- porcelain (material)
- glaze
- Porcelain
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: Asian ceramics
- collectie: Aziatische keramiek
- collectie: China (collectie)
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T13:02:59.821Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T13:00:40.328Z
Keywords (provided by the community)
- porcelain (material)
- bodhisattvas
- blanc de chine ware
- Dehua County
- porcelain
- People's Republic of China
- Bodhisattva
- Earth
- Fujian
- Buddhist deity