G756.4 LARGE ALABASTER STANDING BUDDHA

BURMA, MANDALAY PERIOD

19^TH CENTURY

H. 84 CMS, 33 INS.

A superb alabaster standing Buddha with his left hand pressed across his chest and the right pendant by his side, the face smiling and serene beneath a conical usnisha rising to a lotus knop, the sanghati (monastic robe) with cascading pleats; mounted on an old hardwood base.

For a similar standing image see P.137, page 184 in Somkiart Lopetcharat, Myanmar Buddha: The Image and Its History, Bangkok:  Siam International Books Co., 2007. For more on stone Buddhas from this period, see Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Buddha Images from Burma, Part I: Sculptured in Stone, Arts of Asia, January-February 1981.

Provenance: From a collection in the West of England.

Acquired from an old private Wiltshire collection.