17³⁄₄ in. (45.1 cm.) high

Monogram Gallery, Bangkok.
Acquired from the above by Richard A. Kebbon, Jr., Illinois, 20 July 1964.

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The classic posturing of the present lot is iconic amongst Buddhist imagery. Here, Buddha is seated in vajraparyankasana with the proper right hand touching in the earth in bhumisparsha mudra, at the moment of his enlightenment.

The flaming finial atop the ushnisha, the snailshell curls, the diaphanous robes, and the tiered lotus throne with raised pearl edges all compare favorably with a fifteenth-sixteenth century Thai bronze figure of seated Buddha, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 1981.463), illustrated in "The Arts of South and Southeast Asia," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 51, no. 4 (Spring, 1994).