Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness
sculptor
Unknown
Date1700-1915
Place MadeChina, East Asia
MediumPainted and gilded copper
Dimensions44 cm (17 5/16 in.) high
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS1s13
eMuseum ID723493
EmbARK ObjectID11017
TMS Source ID273
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryThe head seems to have been made for a different sculpture. It is not known when Isabella Gardner acquired this work, which she installed on a red lacquer table in the Yellow Room.
Source: “Chinese Objects,” in Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia, edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (Boston: ISGM and Gutenberg Periscope, 2009).
Source: “Chinese Objects,” in Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia, edited by Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (Boston: ISGM and Gutenberg Periscope, 2009).
BibliographyNotesGilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 21 (as Ch'ien-lung period, 1736-95).
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), p. 447, fig. 17 (as 18th century).
Diana Seave Greenwald and Erica Hirshler, "The Story Behind John Singer Sargent's Portait of Isabella Stewart Gardner," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 30 November 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/story-behind-john-singer-sargents-portrait-isabella-stewart-gardner
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), p. 447, fig. 17 (as 18th century).
Diana Seave Greenwald and Erica Hirshler, "The Story Behind John Singer Sargent's Portait of Isabella Stewart Gardner," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 30 November 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/story-behind-john-singer-sargents-portrait-isabella-stewart-gardner
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner’s collection by 1915.
