Description:
This seated Buddha is in padmasana, his right hand raised in abhaya mudra, a gesture of reassurance, his left hand holding a medicine box, dressed in robes open at the chest and falling in highly stylized folds to form the base, his hair dressed in right curls covering the mound usnisa, traces of an original black or dark brown lacquer surface coating remaining in the recesses of the details.

Label Text:
The style of the figure of Buddha, in particular his physiognomy, the treatment of his hair and the garment folds, is derived directly from earlier Nara and Heian period images from the 9th century of the same subject, which grew out of the Indian Gupta sculptural tradition of Mathura and Sarnath.

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