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Myanmar/Burma. 18th/19th c. Dark red dry lacquer (man phaya) with residue of gilding. Base closed with wood, separate tip from lacquered wood. Sitting in vajrasana on a high base with his elegantly elongated hands in bhumisparsa and dhyana mudra. The hair depicted as fine tips. The garment in relief with the sash draped in folds over the left shoulder. For the dry lacquer technique the rough shape is built from bamboo and clay, over which layers of fabric soaked in lacquer are draped. After hardening of the lacquer the inner core is taken out and here a wooden panel was inserted at the base for giving it some extra weight, as the dry lacquer is very light. Figures of this size in dry lacquer are extremely rare in western collections. Weight only 14.4kg, height 98cm. Condition A/B. Provenance: -Private collection Berlin. 1975-78 acquired locally. Literature: -R. Isaaca & T.R. Blurton: Visions from the Golden Land. Chicago 2000, no. 72-74, p. 129-132. -Sylvia Fraser-Lu: Burmese Lacquerware. Bangkok 1985, p. 108-9.