Standing Carved Wooden Statue "Sho Kannon"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: Early 1960's
name: label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG. TALL STANDING CARVED WOODEN MALE FIGURE HAS A SQUARE BLACK WOODEN BASE. LOWER PART (FROM THE KNEES DOWN) OF STATUE IS EMBEDDED IN THE BASE. FIGURE'S ARMS ARE AT THE SIDES, BROKEN OFF AT THE ELBOWS. FACIAL FEATURES MOSTLY OBSCURED FROM LOSSES OF WOOD. HAS LONG EARS, TOP KNOT. WEARS A CLOSE-FITTING ROBE THAT HAS A MANTLE DRAPED OVER THE BACK BUT LEAVES THE RIGHT SHOULDER & ARM BARE. CONDITIONS: THE BACK SIDE REMAINS RELATIVELY SMOOTH W/ LITTLE SIGNS OF DETERIORATION. FRONT SIDE IS RIDDLED W/ INSECT HOLES. ACCORDING TO INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE KIMBELL ART MUSEUM'S WEB SITE, "KANNON IS THE JAPANESE NAME FOR AVALOKITESVARA, THE BODHISATTVA OF COMPASSION. BECAUSE OF THE BOUNDLESS LOVE HE OFFERED TO ALL BEINGS, THIS BODHISATTVA WAS THE MOST POPULAR OF ALL THE BUDDHIST DIVINITIES THROUGHOUT ASIA." ACCORDING TO HMSG ACCESSION RECORDS, MR. HIRSHHORN PURCHASED ITEM FROM MR. STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT IN THE EARLY 1960'S. SCULPTURE IS DATED FROM THE TEMPYO ERA, 720-810 A.D. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, SEE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN HMSG ACCESSION RECORDS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: E428129-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 62.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 62.2 cm
label: Height - W/ Base
content: 405 cm