A GILT- AND BLACK-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI

Description:

Thailand, Ayutthya period, 18th c.
H. 79 (99) cm
Seated in sattvasana with his right hand lowered in bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing uttarasangha and samghati covering his left shoulder, his face displaying a serene expression with mother-of-pearl inlaid eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, smiling lips, elongated earlobes and the spiky curled hairdo continuing into the ushnisha, with a shaped bronze associated lotus base.
German private collection, assembled before 2007