Eleven-headed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Jūichimen Kannon)
date: label: Date
content: 794-1185
label: Period
content: Heian period
notes: label: Description
content: Several parts restored. Pedestal.
label: Description
content: Wood. Traces of gesso, and color. Surface worn and blackened.
label: Provenance
content: To 1911
label: Provenance
content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1911 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1911 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1911 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 333, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: wood
label: Topic
content: Buddhism
label: Topic
content: bodhisattva
label: Topic
content: Heian period (794 - 1185)
label: Topic
content: Avalokiteshvara
label: Topic
content: Guanyin
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1911.159a-d
objectType: label: Type
content: Sculpture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Wood
label: Dimensions
content: H: 127.8 cm (50 5/16 in)