Guanyin
c. 1100 - c. 1200
- Medium
- gilding (material), willow (wood), dye, paulownia
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 117 cm x width 111 cm x depth 74 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase widow Otto H. Kahn, 1939)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Here the Buddhist deity Guanyin, saviour of people in peril, is represented meditating on a rock. According to legend, he was once found in this position, meditating on the reflection of the moon in water, a symbol of illusion and transience in Buddhism. His pose and face embody inner peace and concentration.
