A GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF PROBABLY YAKUSHI NYORAI

Description:

Japan, early Edo period
H. 34 cm
Seated with his legs crossed showing with his right hand the abhayamudra while the replaced left hand originally supported the medicine bowl, wearing monastic robe including underskirt and mantle covering both shoulders falling down his body and legs in concentric pleats, his face displaying a serene expression with inlaid downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into the nose-bridge, inlaid urna at his forehead, smiling lips framed by a black painted mustache and goatee, pierced elongated earlobes, curled hairdo continuing into the ushnisha and decorated with a coloured bead to its front, the base with a rectangular closed relic cavity
Old German private collection, acquired from Günter Venzke, Berlin, on 2 June 2023, previously from an old manor estate, acquired prior to 1980 (invoice copy extant) - Minor old damages and repairs, one hand chipped,. the other replaced