Burma, 19th Century, Statuette Of The Maravijaya Buddha, Bronze With Lacquer Highlights

Statuette of the Buddha Maravijaya

Burma
19th century

The Buddha is depicted seated on a high, stepped pedestal, legs crossed in the vajraparyanka position, his right hand resting on his knee in bhumisparshamudra, a symbolic gesture of victory over inner demons and the activation of the Earth as a witness to his awakening, his left hand placed in his lap, palm facing upward.
The Awakened One is clothed in the uttarasangha, worn close to his body, and a long samghati draped over his left shoulder. His triangular face is characterized by thick, comma-shaped brow ridges above lenticular eyes, an aquiline nose with dilated nostrils above a thin mouth. The neck displays the three beauty lines, the forehead is adorned with a thin, multicolored band, and the delicate hair is styled in small spikes.
The skull is adorned with a tall usnisa topped with a rasmi in the shape of a lotus bud, the elongated ears with distended lobes extending to the shoulders, recalling the Blessed One's past worldly life.
The back of the piece bears a dedicatory inscription in Burmese.

Bronze with lacquer highlights
27 × 12.1 cm
Minor damage without consequence
Private collection

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