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Miss Qiu

(Chinese, active ca. 1565–1585)

Guanyin and a demon carrying a child, from an album of twenty-four portraits of Guanyin

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Object Details

Artist

Miss Qiu

Date

late 16th century

Medium

Album pages: gold ink on dyed paper

Dimensions

Image (each): 11 9/16 × 8 11/16 inches (29.4 × 22.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 9/16 × 22 inches (37 × 55.9 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 inches (55.9 × 71.1 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired through the generosity of Judith Stoikov, Class of 1963, supplemented by the George and Mary Rockwell Fund, and gift of Warner L. Overton, Class of 1922, by exchange

Object
Number

2002.012.015

As is the case with many Chinese women artists, little is known of Miss Qiu’s biography beyond the(…)

As is the case with many Chinese women artists, little is known of Miss Qiu’s biography beyond the fact that she was the daughter of the famous painter Qiu Ying (active 1530–1550). These pages come from an album illustrating twenty-four transformations of Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion. Guanyin is considered a guardian of women, and in Ming-dynasty China women formed various Guanyin recitation groups to express their devotion to this bodhisattva. Each painting in the museum’s album is paired with a four-line gatha (Buddhist verse). The verse here is translated as:The flower garlandIs abundantly auspicious (beautiful).It causes you to have the notion of the emotion of love,Resulting in erroneous thinking and delusive ideas.You become entangled in one hundred mental perversions,And afflictions appear.Good man, do not have this perception.This gatha is a reminder not to commit adultery, one of the five fundamental precepts of a bodhisattva.

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