Water and Moon (Potala) Guanyin, China, Five dynasties (907-960) - Song dynasty (960-1279). Gilt bronze, 17.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1984.7.

The deity wears a short-sleeved garment draped over his finely striated hair and shoulders.

The Water and Moon Guanyin is seated in the posture called "royal ease." His right leg is drawn up with folded knee; the left leg flexed. One hand rests on the upraised knee; the other extends downward to support weight on the palm. With gilding, the image assumes the splendor of divine dignity