A small black-lacquered zushi

Description:

Japan, late Edo period
10,5 x 5,5 x 5 cm
The interior housing a finely carved sandalwood figure of the eleven-headed Bodhisattva Juichimen Kannon, delicately decorated in gilt, standing on a tiered lotus pedestal before an intricately pierced flaming mandorla. His right hand lowered in Varada Mudra, the left slightly raised. The gilded interiors of the doors finely painted in polychrome with depictions of Buddha Amida and Kannon.
From a South German private collection - Traces of age, slightly damaged