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    "localId": "127950",
    "label": "Bodhisattva Guanyin of the South Sea",
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    "id": "127950",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Bodhisattva Guanyin of the South Sea",
    "description": "Guanyin, the Buddhist bodhisattva of infinite compassion (Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit), is the most revered enlightened being in East Asia. The bodhisattva perceives all beings in need of help and reveals himself in many forms. Here, his elaborate lotus pedestal rests on the crest of surging waves, identifying him as Guanyin of the South Seas. The Dehua kilns in Fujian province in southern China produced white porcelain figures for both the domestic and export markets. In China, such a figure may have furnished a house altar or a temple.",
    "date": "1600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.579",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79908378"
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        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 45.2 cm (17 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Fujian Province, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) - Qing dynasty (1644-1911)"
    ],
    "accession": "1950.579"
}

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    "tec": "Porcelain with white glaze, Dehua ware",
    "tombstone": "Bodhisattva Guanyin of the South Sea (南海觀音), 1600s. China, Fujian Province, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) - Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Porcelain with white glaze, Dehua ware; overall: 45.2 cm (17 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1950.579",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "南海觀音",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "didYouKnow": "When Marco Polo visited China in the late 1200s, he was so impressed by the Dehua kilns that he included lengthy descriptions of ceramic production in his chronicle of his journey.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Milliken, William M. \"Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1950.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 38, no. 6 (1951): 151-82.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 158",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141726"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 868",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n154"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced:  p. 420, fig. no. 558"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 267",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n291"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 267",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n291"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 354",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n374"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lion-Goldschmidt, Daisy. <em>Ming Porcelain</em>. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 251, no. 271"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "no. 132"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Marquardt, Janet, and Stephen Eskilson. <em>Frames of Reference: Art, History, and the World</em>. McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 2004.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 2.29, p. 45"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sun, Di 孙迪, editor. <em>Zhongguo liu shi hai wai Fo jiao zao xiang zong he tu mu </em>[中国流失海外佛教造像总合图目 = Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Overseas Collections]. Beijing: Wai wen chu ban she, 2005.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 7, p. 1460"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.579",
    "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:36:26.177000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.579/1950.579_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 127950,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "med": "Porcelain with white glaze, Dehua ware",
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    "image_url": null
}

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