A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA PAREE

Description:

Thailand, Lanna Style, ca. 18. Jh.
H. 89 cm
Seated in sattvasana on a lotus base placed on a pierced pedestal, his right hand in bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing diaphanous dhoti, jewellery set with beads, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into his nose-bridge, elongated earlobes with ear-ornaments, his chignon-shaped hair covered with a helmet cast with a scrolling design topped with a lotus bud and secured with a crown.
Important Bavarian private collection, bought in the Munich trade, according to the prevoius owner assembled in the 1980s - Traces of age, partly chipped