What kind of buddha?

[vajo]

Did anyone knows something about this 43 cm wooden figure?

 

I found it on a flea market today between old iron goods, lamps and old small furniture.

I thought it is Japanese so i grab it. It was really dirty and i cleaned it first with a brush, than with a wet cotton towel and after drying with some choji oil. 

 

 

on the right side a waterdragon, on the left side some big flowers maybe lotus? The face looks lovely

 

Edit:

 

Thanks all for figure out that is Guanyin ( Guānzìzài (觀自在 / 观自在, jap. Kanjizai), the goddess of mercy.

[C0D]

Could be Kannon riding a dragon or this to me https://broomcloset.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/benten-Japanese-goddess-of-eloquence/

[TETSUGENDO]

Hi Chris,

 

Your right, I don't think there is much age here but still a nice thing.  Doesn't look Japanese to me, more likely it's a Balinese image of Guan Yin.

 

Cheers,

    -S-

[raynor]

Definitively Guan Yin/Kannon. I see lots of these on temples and around people's shops when I wander around towns in Malaysia.

[ChrisW]

Still very well-carved I think!

[Stephen]

Nice one Chris. Yes lotus flower.

[vajo]

Thanks a lot for the input. Guan Yin is a nice point. What you think about the wood? Rose wood? I dont think it is teak. I thought i read a Kanji yama, but it could be only the line in the wood.

[paul griff]

Hello Chris,

Looks well carved and agree,doesn’t look like teak..By the growth lines looks like a fast growing Indonesian wood that wood carvers can easily work with...Only my opinion and kind of stating the obvious I suppose but nice find..

Regards,

Paul..

[John A Stuart]

Guanyin, Avalokitesvara originally the supreme creator from Hindu is a male deity being feminised by time to what we have now. Strange, but, true. john