A Japanese polychrome wood figure of Ananda, Momoyama/early Edo, 17th-18th century, standing in prayer on a tiered platform wearing a long pleated robe, the inner coat finely detailed in gold, red and black lacquer, 45 cm high. Reference: see money L. Hickman, Japan's golden Age, Momayama, 1996, cat. No. 20, pp. 90-91 for a similar example dated 1650, also Gerard Hawthorne, Chinese and Japanese Sculpture, November 2002, cat. No. 27. Provenance: Gallery Japonesque, San Francisco