Object details
Object number
S1s13
Creator(s)
Chinese
Title
Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness
Date
1700-1915
Medium
Painted and gilded copper
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner’s collection by 1915.
Dimensions
44 cm (17 5/16 in.) high
Commentary
The head seems to have been made for a different sculpture. It is not known when Isabella Gardner acquired this work, which she installed on a red lacquer table in the Yellow Room.Source: “Chinese Objects,” in Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia, edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (Boston: ISGM and Gutenberg Periscope, 2009).
Gallery
Yellow Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 21 (as Ch'ien-lung period, 1736-95).Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), p. 447, fig. 17 (as 18th century).Diana Seave Greenwald and Erica Hirshler, "The Story Behind John Singer Sargent's Portait of Isabella Stewart Gardner," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 30 November 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/story-behind-john-singer-sargents-portrait-isabella-stewart-gardner
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