Unknown artist
Beautiful Scenery of Putuoshan on the Southern Sea
1700s
- Medium
- Printed in two shades of black and colored by hand
- Dimensions
- 123 × 80 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-1307048
Mount Putuo, an island southeast of Shanghai that covers approximately 12.5 square kilometers (4.8 square miles), is one of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains and a destination for the worship of Guanyin (Avalokiteśhvara), the bodhisattva of compassion. The importance of Putuo as a national and international pilgrimage center began in the 900s and was revived in the late 1500s and 1600s. Its attraction is partly based on the claim that Putuo Island is Mount Potalaka, the home of Guanyin located on the southern coast of India, which made the island attractive to Korean and Japanese pilgrims as…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 2025.52
Registry history
- 1700s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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