{"type":"artobject","objectid":57583,"objectnumber":"y1958-176","sortnumber":"1958  176y","displaytitle":"Fish-basket Guanyin (Yulan Guanyin 魚籃觀音)","department":"Asian Art","classification":"Rubbings","datebegin":1617,"dateend":1950,"datecomputed":1784,"daterange":"A.D. 1700-1800","displaydate":"after 1617 (stone); late 19th to first half of 20th century (rubbing)","medium":"Hanging scroll; ink rubbing on paper","dimensions":"image: 132 x 46.6 cm. (51 15/16 x 18 3/8 in.)\r\n152.5 x 51 cm. (60 1/16 x 20 1/16 in.)","dimensionsproposed":"","creditline":"Gift of George Rowley","markings":null,"inscribed":"Top:\r\n步出看山紫竹林來風\r\n飛度水雲津賣魚曾\r\n入金少市點化時人妄\r\n想心\r\n[?]\r\n萬曆丁巳[1617]歲季冬元旦\r\nSummary:\r\nFrom the mountains and Purple Bamboo Grove [on Potalaka, Guanyin] flew across [to this world of sentient beings]; upon entering the city of Jinshao to sell fish, while transformed [into a young girl], [the men] wishfully think in vain. [Signature? unidentified]. “On New Year’s Day, winter, the dingsi cyclical year of the Wanli reign.” \r\n\r\nBottom left:\r\n登邑石工董大本鐫立刻\r\n“Engraved by the stone craftsman Dong Daben of Dengyi”\r\n\r\n少林寺弟子通**[新立？]\r\n[][]董大本\r\n“Disciple Tong . . . of Shaolin Temple, [raised anew]\r\n. . . Dong Daben”\r\n","signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"1958-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Fish-basket Guanyin (Yulan Guanyin 魚籃觀音)","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[{"id":22014,"displayname":"Unidentified artist","displaydate":null,"datebegin":0,"dateend":0,"prefix":null,"suffix":", calligrapher","role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Unidentified artist, calligrapher","displayorder":4},{"id":22614,"displayname":"Dong Daben 董大本","displaydate":"active 17th century","datebegin":0,"dateend":0,"prefix":null,"suffix":", carver","role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Dong Daben 董大本, carver, active 17th century","displayorder":3}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Description","textentryhtml":"The bodhisattva Guanyin in the manifestation of a young lady with bare feet carrying a basket with a fish. This illustrates the variously told tale of a beautiful lady in the Tang dynasty who was offered marriage by many suitors. She consented to marry the person who could memorize a series of Buddhist sutras, but on the night of the wedding she died. Later, a monk appeared before the husband, Mr. Ma (hence, Fish-basket Guanyin is also known as “Mr. Ma’s wife” ), and when they opened her coffin, nothing was left except bones linked by a gold chain, the sign of a holy personage, particularly a bodhisattva. Such tales gained popularity in China during the Song dynasty and the fishmonger, who is not whom she seems, comes to be identified with Guanyin. On the carved stone from which this rubbing was taken, there is an inscription dated to 1617 and the stone carver is named as Dong Daben. [It appears from unclear additional inscriptions at bottom left, that the image was later recut by a Buddhist disciple named Tong at Shaolin Temple, and the recarved stone may also have been done by Dong Daben].","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":59818,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV05338","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"},{"id":59884,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV05235","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"&quot;Recent Acquisitions,&quot; <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42.","citation":"&quot;Recent Acquisitions,&quot; <i>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</i> 18, no. 1 (1959): p. 40-42., p. 42","date":1959,"id":876,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774388"}],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: Asia, China","code":"Place made","continent":"Asia","subcontinent":null,"country":"China","region":null,"state":null,"city":null,"county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":null,"location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2054786,"term":"rubbings","aatid":300103035,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2088280,"term":"women","aatid":300025943,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2084828,"term":"temples","aatid":300007595,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2033355,"term":"Chinese","aatid":300018322,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2103924,"term":"fish","aatid":null,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2033562,"term":"Ming","aatid":300018438,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2072459,"term":"baskets","aatid":300194498,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2095964,"term":"religious art","aatid":300248179,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"}],"classifications":[{"id":2054786,"classification":"rubbings"}],"cultures":[{"id":13592,"culture":"Chinese","alphasort":"Chinese","begindate":0,"enddate":0,"displayculture":"Chinese","displaydate":null}],"cultureterms":[{"id":2033355,"culture":"Chinese"}],"periods":[{"id":12562,"period":"Ming dynasty","alphasort":"Ming dynasty","begindate":1368,"enddate":1644,"displayperiod":"Ming dynasty, 1368–1644","displaydate":"1368–1644"}],"periodterms":[{"id":2033562,"period":"Ming"}],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199319,"term":"Asian Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"152.50"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"51.00"},{"element":"image","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"132.00"},{"element":"image","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"46.60"}],"packages":[],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV05338"],"displaymaker":"Dong Daben 董大本, carver, active 17th century | Unidentified artist, calligrapher","displayculture":"Chinese","displayperiod":"Ming dynasty, 1368–1644","caption":"Chinese, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Dong Daben 董大本, carver (active 17th century), Unidentified artist, calligrapher, Fish-basket Guanyin (Yulan Guanyin 魚籃觀音), after 1617 (stone); late 19th to first half of 20th century (rubbing). 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