Period:Ming dynasty Production date:17thC
Materials:soapstone, stone,
Technique:
Subjects:bodhisattva
Description:
Figure (Guanyin). Made of soapstone, stone (steatite).
IMG
![图片[1]-figure BM-SLMisc.1181-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/mid_Guaniyn.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure BM-SLMisc.1181-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/mid_Guaniyn_1.jpg)
![图片[3]-figure BM-SLMisc.1181-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Ming dynasty/43/mid_Guaniyn_2.jpg)
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 1181 “1181. A Chinese sitting wt. a roll in one hand & a string of beads in the other, inlaid wt. mother of pearl. In the same.”; referring to material in Miscellanea Miscellanies 1176 “A Chinese figure of man Standing with a bird & deer on his right & left side in past of alabaster.”AWF 1853 – steatite
Materials:soapstone, stone,
Technique:
Subjects:bodhisattva
Description:
Figure (Guanyin). Made of soapstone, stone (steatite).
IMG
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 1181 “1181. A Chinese sitting wt. a roll in one hand & a string of beads in the other, inlaid wt. mother of pearl. In the same.”; referring to material in Miscellanea Miscellanies 1176 “A Chinese figure of man Standing with a bird & deer on his right & left side in past of alabaster.”AWF 1853 – steatite
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