Dehua kilns
Guanyin with a Fish Basket (Yulan Guanyin)
1900
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with transparent glaze, 11 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (29.2 x 14 x 10.8 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. W. Lehman Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number
2003.349
Guanyin is seated with her legs loosely crossed, the right tucked below the left, her left foot exposed beneath her loose robe. A basket holding a fish is beside her foot. There is a tripod censer at her left elbow. Guanyin holds a small rectangular tablet in her left hand, her right rests on a book. She wears a headdress studded with pearls, a hair pin also decorated with a strand of pearls, and a long pearl necklace which falls across her lap and over her leg. She sits on a high rock, with a lotus flower, bud and leaves which spring from the roiling waves at its base.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2003; Dr. William L. Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Collection installation, "Asia. Guanyin's Stories & Lineage," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
Inscribed: Back: above bottom edge, in red paint, "17.51.07"
On View: Levy Gallery 2, Case 04/A
