Gilt Brass Sitting Buddha - Bhumisparsha Mudra Origin - Sri Lanka These cabinets were used as

These cabinets were used as wardrobes to pile folded clothes

5 x 67 (WxDxH cms)

74 x 8 x 163 (wxdxh cms)

wide mouth

valued for its practicality as well as its beauty

Gilt Brass Sitting Buddha - Bhumisparsha Mudra Origin - Sri Lanka These cabinets were used asThis 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