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The Wade Cup with Animated Script
Creator not recorded
Photograph: National Museum of Korea, KOGL Type 1; via Wikimedia Commons
Image licence: KOGL Type 1 · Web image resized for display. · Photograph rights record ↗ · Museum record & image source ↗
Korea · Early 7th century
Pensive Bodhisattva (Deoksu3312)
Creator not recorded by the museum
- Date
- Early 7th century
- Medium
- Gilt bronze
- Dimensions
- Height: 93.5 cm
- Country / context
- Korea
- Movement / tradition
- Korean arts
- Collection
- National Museum of Korea
- Pathway
- Korean arts ↗
ABOUT THIS WORK
A hand raised to the cheek and one leg resting across the other create a contemplative pose. Compare the exposed torso and three-peaked crown with the museum’s other pensive figure. The museum connects this sculpture with exchanges of Buddhist imagery between Korea and Japan.
Original educational overview · based on the linked museum recordA MOMENT TO LOOK
Start with what you can see: shapes, surface, colour and scale. How might the listed materials affect the way this object was made and experienced?
Looking prompt · an invitation to observe, not a historical interpretation.Follow a connection.
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