SHUNZHI PERIOD, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO 1652

The youthful-visaged figure is elaborately illustrated in colourful tones of bright red, greed, pink and turquoise, with his hands in anjalimudra, clad in armour and helmet with billowing celestial scarf, sleeves and ribbons.
Weituo Pusa is one of the thirty-two generals under the four Guardian Kings deemed to protect and maintain the Buddhist dharma. Large figures of Weituo were therefore usually placed in Buddhist temples.