Sacred Art & Iconography
Standing Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara Flanked by Tara and Bhrikuti(?) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987.142.22)
Bronze with silver inlay, Java, second half of the 9th to early 10th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1987.142.22
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A bronze with silver inlay from Java, second half of the 9th to early 10th century, showing a standing four-armed Avalokiteshvara flanked by two smaller female attendant figures the museum identifies as Tara, confidently, and, with its own hedge, Bhrikuti, one of the bodhisattva's two principal consorts in the wider Himalayan and Central Asian tradition. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art department, under accession 1987.142.22.
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Custody HistoryThis bronze entered the Metropolitan Museum in 1987 as part of the gift of Samuel Eilenberg, a Columbia University mathematician who over some thirty years assembled one of the finest private collections of Javanese bronzes in the world alongside major Gandharan, Indian, Nepali and Thai holdings; his donation of more than four hundred objects gave the Met its strongest representation of Javanese bronze sculpture outside Jakarta. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Avalokiteshvara directly: "century, showing a standing four-armed Avalokiteshvara flanked by two smaller female attendant figures the museum identifies as Tara, confidently, and, with its own hedge, Bhrikuti, one of the..."
This source names Avalokiteshvara directly: "century, showing a standing four-armed Avalokiteshvara flanked by two smaller female attendant figures the museum identifies as Tara, confidently, and, with its own hedge, Bhrikuti, one of the..."
Tara, Deities This source names Tara directly: "figures the museum identifies as Tara, confidently, and, with its own hedge, Bhrikuti, one of the bodhisattva's two principal consorts in the wider Himalayan and Central Asian tradition."
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Bhrikuti, Figures The Met's own title names Bhrikuti as one of the two attendant figures flanking Avalokiteshvara, but hedges the identification with its own question mark rather than asserting it outright, so the edge is recorded as associated rather than holds.
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