Gracefully modelled with a youthful, animated expression, the figure features wide lips and open, alert eyes. His hair is arranged in layered concentric curls rising over the ushnisha, adding to the refined elegance of the head. He is clad in a sanghati draped over the left shoulder, its delicately rendered, sweeping pleats harmonizing with the gentle flexion of the torso.

A closely related example in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1993.64) exhibits a similar treatment of the sanghati, facial features, and hair curls. See Kossak, “The Arts of South and Southeast Asia,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 51, no. 4 (Spring 1994), p. 76, fig. 75.

For comparison, see also a full-figure example with a plain robe and more conventional hieratic pose in Cutiwongs and Leidy, The Buddha of the Future: An Early Maitreya from Thailand (1994), p. 41, cat. no. 21.