Cleveland Museum of Art

Potalaka Guanyin

Date: 900s
Medium: Carved sandalwood with traces of paint
Culture: China, Five dynasties (907-960)
Department: Chinese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 142032

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This portable figure of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion who vowed to stay on earth to help human beings, is carved of precious sandalwood. It is lavishly covered with garlands of flowers that retain traces of the original red paint. The small sculpture may have been used in a private devotional context. Mount Potala is the mythical home of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, called Guanyin in Chinese.

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Credit line: Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
Provenance: ?–1965: (Ellsworth and Goldie, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1965–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH