佛像网

尺寸：Overall: 129.6 x 63.6 x 25.4 cm
年代：唐代 8世纪
质地：砂岩石雕(Gray Sandstone)
风格：中原
来源：克利夫兰艺术博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
这是一尊高深度浮雕的十一面观音菩萨像，从雕像背面痕迹可以看出，此像是从某一石窟的山岩上生硬剥离而来，博物馆未说明来自中国哪一石窟。

观音菩萨的11面自下往上布局为1-6-3-1，十小面多呈忿怒相。如此多的忿怒相仍未能震慑盗宝之徒的欲望，可见众生之刚强，观音菩萨之慈悲。观音菩萨面相圆润饱满，弯眉长目，发绺垂肩、双目微闭，神态安详，慈悲庄严。身佩耳珰、项圈、挂链及臂钏。整尊造像精美细腻、肌肤光洁柔润、服饰繁复华丽，实为唐代石雕之精品。

Eleven-Headed Guanyin
十一面觀音菩薩
early 700s
China, Tang dynasty (618-907)

传承:
?-1959
(C.T. Loo 盧芹齋 [1880-1957], New York, NY and Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1959-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

著录:
Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-Kam Ho. “A Colossal Eleven-Faced Kuan-Yin of the T’ang Dynasty.” Artibus Asiae 22, no. 1/2 (1959): 121–137. Mentioned: pp. 121–137; Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 123; fig. 2, p. 124; fig. 5, p. 127 www-jstor-org.ingallslibrary.idm.oclc.org

Lee, Sherman E., and Wai-Kam Ho. “A Colossal Eleven-Faced Kuan-Yin of the T’ang Dynasty.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 1 (January 1960): 3–6. Mentioned: pp. 3–6; Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 4 and fig. 2, p. 5 www.jstor.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, “Art News Press Release,” January 23, 1961, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. “Contrasts in Chinese and Japanese art.” Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, Fall 1962, Vol. 21 Issue 1, 3–12. Reproduced: p. 3

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Reproduced: p. 154, fig. no. 185

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 253 archive.org

Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. Reproduced: pl. 54

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 253 archive.org

Glubok, Shirley. The Art of China. New York: Macmillan, 1973. p. 40

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 333 archive.org

Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan 國立故宮博物院. Hai wai yi zhen. fo xiang [海外遺珎. 佛像 = Chinese art in overseas collections. Buddhist sculpture]. Taibei Shi: Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, 1986. Reproduced: pl. 115

Sun, Di 孙迪, editor. Zhongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu [中国流失海外佛教造像总合图目= Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Overseas Collections]. Beijing: Wai wen chu ban she, 2005. Mentioned: vol. 5, 1084 Shepherd, Rupert, and Robert Maniura. Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype Within Images and Other Objects. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006. p. 276, fig. 16.5