元 景德鎮窯青白瓷菩薩坐像|Seated bodhisattva

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late 13th–early 14th century · Porcelain with relief decoration under bluish white glaze (Jingdezhen Qingbai ware) · Asian Art

This elegant bodhisattva wears a particularly elaborate array of fine beaded chains and pendants on his chest and skirt. The object is part of a series of large Buddhist porcelain sculptures bejeweled with applied ropes of pearl beading, which relates them to a popular trend of decoration in the early fourteenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 13th–early 14th century

Medium

Porcelain with relief decoration under bluish white glaze (Jingdezhen Qingbai ware)

Culture

China

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Edgar Bromberger, in memory of his mother, Augusta Bromberger, 1951