A rare Chinese wooden standing figure of Guanyin, late…
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A rare Chinese wooden standing figure of Guanyin, late song-Yuan Dynasty, 13th-14th century, his hair in a high chignon, wearing a necklace and sash and a robe from the waist down, a slight curve to the body and traces of black and red pigment, 37 cm high, black metal stand. Reference: see Leidy and Straham, Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fig. 82, p. 106 for a similar wooden figure, Jin dynasty. Provenance: attached label reading 'A. Mosle. Ralph M. Chait Galleries, NY, 12/8/1988

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