{"id":667,"date":"2014-09-24T15:15:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/?p=667"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:25:20","slug":"image-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/2014\/09\/24\/image-11\/","title":{"rendered":"11. Songzi Guanyin, Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara as the Bestower of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China, late Ming or Qing dynasty, 17th\u201318th century; sandalwood with traces of pigment and gilding, single-woodblock construction; 5 3\/8 x 2 3\/4 x 2 1\/2 in.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1951, 51.15, photo: www.metmuseum.org.<\/p>\n<p>Small in size, this sculpture was probably a precious object of personal devotion. The <b><i>Lotus Sutra<\/i><\/b> recounts that <b>Avalokiteshvara<\/b> bestows children of either sex, depending on the mother\u2019s wishes. Despite this, the Chinese most often supplicated the Child-giving, or <b>Songzi Guanyin<\/b>, for male heirs, the only gender qualified for the prestigious profession of government service. Derived from the <b>White-robed Guanyin<\/b>, this form developed during the <b>Ming dynasty<\/b> and appears here as unambiguously feminine. She wears voluminous robes and cradles a child in her right arm; her left is now missing. Songzi Guanyin tenderly supports her tiny charge, as if to respond to her worshippers\u2019 ardent desire for offspring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, late Ming or Qing dynasty, 17th\u201318th century; sandalwood with traces of pigment and gilding, single-woodblock construction; 5 3\/8 x 2 3\/4 x 2 1\/2 in.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1951, 51.15, photo: www.metmuseum.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3579,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[69129],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","tag-image_11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/embodyingcompassion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}