National Museum of Asian Art
Standing figure of Bodhisattva
8th-9th century
Charles Lang Freer purchased this figure of a bodhisattva, or enlightened being, in 1917. It exemplifies some of the mistakes collectors made trying to date Buddhist sculpture in an era of little comparative material outside of China.
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