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Tibetan Buddhist ImageAsian Art

The Galleries' Asian art collection includes:

  • Eleven-faced, thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara; Tibet, 17th-18th century; colors and gold on cotton; Gift of Lucile and Charles Klontz 37 small Buddha images from Thailand, dating from the fourteenth century to the twentieth
  • 5 stucco heads and torsos from fourteenth-fifteenth-century Buddhist temples in the Sukhothai kingdom of Thailand
  • 17 Buddhist votive tablets of the twelfth to fifteenth centuries from Thailand and Cambodia
  • a fine nineteenth-century Thai gilded and lacquered Buddhist scripture cabinet with scenes of the last 10 jatakas and of Phra Malai visiting hell, and a beautiful panel from another such cabinet
  • a group of fourteenth-fifteenth-century sherds and wasters from the kilns at Sukhothai and Sawankhalok in Thailand
  • several Pala period sculptures from India
  • several dozen late south Indian Hindu bronze statuettes and ceremonial objects
  • several Tibetan Buddhist paintings (tankas) of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
  • a large Japanese Meiji period bronze sculpture of a demon supporting a globe covered with Buddhist deities
  • a number of twentieth-century works by Asian painters and printmakers, including 11 etchings and watercolors by Mukul Dey and paintings by Tyeb Mehta, Kwo Da-Wei, and Tetsuro Sugimoto