Head of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

Khmer

Angkor period, late 12th–early 13th century

Medium

Sandstone

Classification

Sculpture

Dimensions

With Peg: 34.3 × 15.9 × 16.6 cm (13 1/2 × 6 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)

Culture

Cambodia

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Sculpture
• Faith and religion
• People
• 1100s
• Cambodia
• Black, white and grey