JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

A similar polychrome wood standing figure of a bodhisattva of larger size (190.5 cm. high), dated to 1195 of the Jin dynasty, is in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated in in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Buddhist Sculpture II, Taipei, 1990, p. 171, no. 161. The pose and the drapery of the two figures are extremely similar. A seated figure of a wood bodhisattva, also dated to the Jin dynasty, shown wearing similar necklaces, in the Liang-sheng T’ang Collection, is illustrated in The Art of Contemplation-Religious Sculpture from Private Collections, The National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1997, p. 208-09, no. 93 and p. 259.