A CARVED WOOD FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA JAPAN, LATE HEIAN PERIOD |

depicted standing on a semi-hemispherical lotus pedestal supported on a splayed foot and stepped barbed base, the bodhisattva rendered with the left elbow bent and holding in the hand a removable lotus stem, portrayed clad in robes loosely draped over the body and revealing the chest, the expression rendered meditative and flanked by a pair of pendulous earlobes

See a similar Heian period wood figure of Avalokiteshvara of a slightly smaller size in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 2002.447.2.