The Quiet Collector and the Sensuous Immortals

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Figure 17: Bodhisatva Avalokiteshvara
gilt copper with pigments and gemstones
59.7 cm.
Published in The Sensuous Immortals, pl 94b
Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Purchase, Bequests of Mary Clarke Thompson, Fanny Shapiro, Susan Dwight Bliss, Isaac D. Fletcher, William Gedney Beatty, John L. Cadwalader and Kate Read Blacque, Gifts of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, Ida H. Ogilvie, Samuel T. Peters and H. R. Bishop, F. C. Bishop and O. M. Bishop, Rogers, Seymour and Fletcher Funds, and other gifts, funds and bequests from various donors, by exchange, 1982
1982.220.2
Photo: Met
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/38335
Detail photo, after The Sensuous Immortals, pl 94b