A GILT- AND RED-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI

Description:

North Vietnam, 19th ct.
H. 72 cm
Seated with legs crossed on a plinth with both hands resting on his lap in dhyanamudra, wearing monastic garment including an underskirt secured around the middle with a ribbon and a wide-sleeved mantle covering both shoulders and falling down in wide pleats over his legs, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, the curled hairdo continuing into the ushnisha and topped with a ratna.
From an old German private collection (a commercial agent in Asia), collected in the 1970s and 80s
Partly traces of age