G657.3 STANDING WOOD BUDDHA

THAILAND

18^TH -19^TH CENTURY

H. 28.5 CMS, 11 ¼ INS

A gilded wood figure of Buddha standing with his feet slightly apart, both hands raised in abhayamudra (the gesture of dispelling fear), the face calm and smiling beneath a conical chignon rising to a flame finial; the sanghati covering both shoulders with a broad belt and a central fold between the legs; with extensive traces of gilding and lacquer on the surface.

The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg has a Buddha in similar style – see no. 48 in State Hermitage Museum, Siamese Art of the 14^th-19^th centuries in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, 1997.

Provenance: Private German collection.

Price: £750 (Previously £1,000)