A LARGE GILT- AND BLACK-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI

Description:

Japan, dated fourth year of Keiō [1868]
H. 89 cm / 138 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a separate carved circular base placed on a separate lotus base sculpted with a row of upturned petals, both hands in vitarkamudra, wearing a monastic garment covering both shoulders and falling in concentric pleats along his body, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, his hairdo continuing into the ushnisha and a separate carved flaming halo behind.
From a North German private collection, in the family since the 1980s - Partly restored, wear, traces of age