<em>Figure of Seated Bodhisattva</em>, mid 17th century. Wood, lacquer, 16 15/16 × 11 × 8 1/4 in. (43 × 28 × 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Carroll Family Collection, 2021.17.6 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2021.17.6_PS11.jpg)

Figure of Seated Bodhisattva, mid 17th century. Wood, lacquer, 16 15/16 × 11 × 8 1/4 in. (43 × 28 × 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Carroll Family Collection, 2021.17.6 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2021.17.6_PS11.jpg)

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Figure of Seated Bodhisattva

Asian Art

MEDIUM Wood, lacquer

Place Made: Korea

DATES mid 17th century

DIMENSIONS 16 15/16 × 11 × 8 1/4 in. (43 × 28 × 21 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Asian Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 2021.17.6

CREDIT LINE Gift of the Carroll Family Collection

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Figure of a Bodhisattva, seated with legs crossed, one hand raised (now missing, likely making gesture of teaching) and one lowered, making a teaching gesture. The figure is depicted wearing a heavy mantle that drapes over his shoulders, and a high-waisted skirt with deep folds. On his bared chest he wears beaded pendants hanging from a torque. He has a topknot and a flattened shelf around his head where a separate crown, likely in metal, would have stood. His eyes are downcast and his head tilted down in a meditative stance. The object is covered in lacquer and shows signs of having been in a fire, with bubbling of the lacquer surface visible on the chest. Some elements of the mantle collar, made from lacquer-coated cloth, have broken away. Traces of gilding, visible particularly on the shoulders, indicate that the whole piece was once gilded. Likely originally one of two Bodhisattvas flanking a larger seated Buddha image. Donor's cataloguing notes: "The oblong face and drapery with cascading folds indicate that the statue was likely produced by an esteemed school of Buddhist monk sculptors led by Ingyun (active 1615–63) for a temple in the South Jeolla Province, an important Buddhist power base at the time."

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Figure of Seated Bodhisattva, mid 17th century. Wood, lacquer, 16 15/16 × 11 × 8 1/4 in. (43 × 28 × 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Carroll Family Collection, 2021.17.6 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2021.17.6_PS11.jpg)

IMAGE overall, 2021.17.6_PS11.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2021

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