Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (600s): Art, History and Details

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This rare image survives from the early phase of Buddhist sculpture in Southeast Asia. Made in what is known as the Pra Khon Chai style, it has the characteristic sensitivity of expression, slender physique, and looped locks of hair. This figure once held a lotus flower in the right hand and flask in the left—identifying features of Avalokiteshvara in this region.

Object facts

• Title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
• Date: 600s
• Culture: Northeastern Thailand, Khorat Plateau, Buriram Province
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze and silver alloy
• Dimensions: Overall: 21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Cambodian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1977.178

Collection credit

Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Annual Report for 1977." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 65, no. 6 (1978): 177-215.

View the collection record

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