Chinese - Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness, 1700-1915

Chinese

Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness, 1700-1915

Painted and gilded copper, 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).