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15 in. (38.1 cm.) high
Roger Keverne, London, 2012. The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
Sudhana is an acolyte who serves as an attendant to Avalokiteshvara in the Pure Land, Potalaka. A wood figure of the pilgrim Sudhana dated to the late fifteenth-early sixteenth century is illustrated by Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan in Wisdom Embodied: Chinese and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010, p. 158, cat. 41. Like the present figure, the Met figure is also depicted as a youth with hands held in prayer, head raised and eyes gazing upturned, and wearing fluttering robes. The authors note that the figure’s robes appear to be blowing in the wind because of the weather conditions of an island near Zhejiang, often identified with Potalaka, and a popular pilgrimage site since the twelfth century.