Altar w/ buddha

Museum number:
9-5683
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.374
Description:
Portable shrine; carved wooden seated Buddha; 2 carved standing figures of protective gods; doors painted to represent anger and jealousy inside; outside black lacquer; leaf pattern.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1909
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Altars (religious fixtures) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1909
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Altar w/ buddha, accession number 9-5683, described as Portable shrine; carved wooden seated Buddha; 2 carved standing figures of protective gods; doors painted to represent anger and jealousy inside; outside black lacquer; leaf pattern.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Altar w/ buddha, accession number 9-5683, described as Portable shrine; carved wooden seated Buddha; 2 carved standing figures of protective gods; doors painted to represent anger and jealousy inside; outside black lacquer; leaf pattern.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Altar w/ buddha, accession number 9-5683, described as Portable shrine; carved wooden seated Buddha; 2 carved standing figures of protective gods; doors painted to represent anger and jealousy inside; outside black lacquer; leaf pattern.

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