<I>Buddha (Fire & Water)</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2013
name: label: Created by
content: Joyce J. Scott, American, born 1948
label: Manufactured by
content: Berengo Glass Studio, Italian, founded 1989
notes: label: Description
content: A Venetian blown glass artwork in the form of a seated Buddha. The Buddha's hands are in the "earth witness" hand position, his right hand on right knee with fingers pointing to the ground, and his left hand raised with the palm flat. The Buddha is a translucent blue. A female figure is seated on the Buddha’s left palm, her barefoot legs extending down either side of the Buddha’s hand, her right arm pointing down towards the earth and her left hand raised with the palm flat. The female figure is blown glass in a deep brown color. The figure is wrapped with peyote-stitched beads in vivid colors of red, orange and yellow, placed around the woman’s figure in a way to suggest flickering flames. In the center of the Buddha’s torso, on the interior of the glass, is a beaded hand with fingers uncurling from the center to point slightly upward. Inside of the Buddha’s head, red and blue glass beads are fused to the interior surface of the Buddha’s face and arranged into an abstracted facial expression. The entire artwork is one, connected piece.
place: label: Place made
content: Murano, Venice, Venezia, Italy, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Buddhism
label: Topic
content: Craftsmanship
label: Topic
content: Religion
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.236
objectType: label: Type
content: sculpture
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Joyce J. Scott, Courtesy Goya Contemporary Gallery and The Artist Legacy Project LLC
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Venetian glass and glass beads with wire and thread
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 19 3/4 × 15 × 11 1/2 in. (50.2 × 38.1 × 29.2 cm)