Chinese Figure Bust of Quan Yin on Wood Base

A face carved to be looked to, in hard times and ordinary ones.

Carved in marble in 20th century China, this figure bust of Quan Yin sits on a wood base. Buddhists in China have long prayed to Quan Yin as the bodhisattva of compassion, asking her help in illness and danger, and her image became a familiar presence in temples and households. A flower sits at the center of her high, tiered headdress, above hair combed into fine ridges. Her eyes are long and narrow, her ears elongated, her mouth set in the slightest curve. The lobed base has a mottled reddish brown surface. Thirteen inches wide and 17.5 high.

She asks nothing of the room except a little quiet.