Gilt Brass Sitting Buddha Statue - Bhumisparsha Mudra Small Boxes Features: Four Glazed Doors

Features: Four Glazed Doors

It is also extremely durable as well as environmentally friendly

With its finely rendered kimono patterns

we've found the date of 1710 inside one of the drawers

two side cupboards

Gilt Brass Sitting Buddha Statue - Bhumisparsha Mudra Small Boxes Features: Four Glazed DoorsThis large bronze Buddha has a serene gaze with painted eyes and lips. Buddha is seated in bhumisparsha mudra, with his right hand "touching the earth" and symbolises Buddha's enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree. The mudra is always from a seated position with the right hand resting on the knee, fingers pointing to the ground. He sits here on his lotus throne, which raises Buddha above the contamination of day to day existence like a lotus flower