A Wooden Guanyin Statue at Boston

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Eve M Kahn, A Buddhist Deity Returns to Boston. New York Times, Jan 29, 2016 (an item her column "Antiques")
www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/arts/ ... urns-to-boston.html
(The wooden Guanyin was carved about 900 years ago * * * Only a handful of similar wooden Guanyins survive [in the world] * * * The Boston museum’s [Mufigure is from northern China, but there is no information about which temple it belonged to before it arrived at the institution in 1920")

Note:
(a) "A Buddhist deity sculpture, absent from the galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for 17 years, will go back on view there next month after undergoing analyses and treatments throughout its gilded surface."

Conservation Project: Guanyin. Museum of Fine Arts, undated
www.mfa.org/collections/conservation/feature_guanyin
("In late 2014, conservators began the technical examination and treatment of the twelfth century Chinese sculpture, Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion. The wooden sculpture, larger than life-size with painted and gilded decoration, came to the MFA in 1920 and was a beloved centerpiece of the Chinese galleries until 1999 when the sculpture was removed to storage due to ongoing condition problems. The goal of the current conservation project is to stabilize this important sculpture and allow it to be back on view in early 2016")
(b) Museum of Fine Arts on this object: "Jin dynasty[,] about 1200 [AD] * * * ACCESSION NUMBER[:] 20.590