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Batô Kannon, the Horse-Headed Bodhisattva of Compassion

12th century
Medium/TechniquePanel; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk
DimensionsImage: 166.1 x 82.7 cm (65 3/8 x 32 9/16 in.)
Framed: 190.5 x 93.3 cm (75 x 36 3/4 in.)
Credit LineFenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession number11.4035
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Inscriptions興聖寺什物 [裏書]
ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA.