Important and large meditating Buddha

IMPORTANT AND LARGE MEDITATING BUDDHA.

Origin: China.
Date: In the style of the early Ming dynasty, but prob. later.
Technique: Wood, prob. elm, assembled from parts, carved and with remains of the lacquer and the paper beneath.
Description: The Buddha sitting in meditation (padmasana). His face shows a mild expression, the nose above the full lips is extended into the brow arches. The eyes are narrow and elegantly shaped, the earlobes are elongated by heavy jewellery. The hair is formed as large bumps also covering the highly arched Ushnisha. In the hair a rectangular elevation is emphasized each in front and in the back, which may have been once decorated. Both hands are lost, the right hand was probably placed in the lap, the left hand raised. On the back a large rectangular cavity, which surely once served to receive the holy objects placed during the consecration of the Buddha.

At the shoulders it becomes clear that two separate pieces of wood have been used for the arms, as well as for the front part of the legs. On the outside of the arms and legs fixing holes for scarf bands formerly attached to the statue.
Measurement: Height 121cm, width 81cm, depth 58cm.
Condition B/C. Lacquer nearly completely lost, both hands not preserved.

Provenance:
-Private collection Berlin.
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