A GILT-LACQUER WOOD FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

Description:

China, late Ming dynasty
H. 58 cm
Standing in samabhanga with his later carved feet slightly apart, both replaced hands showing a form of varadamudra, wearing monastic garment including an underskirt draped in neat folds around his waist, wide-sleeved mantle covering both shoulders and falling down in concentric pleats, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, inlaid urna at his forehead, smiling lips, painted facials details and his hair combed in a chignon, the reverse with rectangular cavity for relics.
Westphalian private collection, collected before 2007
Minor damages due to age, wear, chipped