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Wenquan: Statuette of Seated Buddha
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Wenquan: Statuette of Seated Buddha
CHINA, Xinjiang, Bortala; Yuan to Ming dynasty (1271–1644); Silver; Bortala Mongol Provincial Museum, Xinjiang, China
This statuette was excavated from a temple in Wenquan, Bortala in Xinjiang in 1984. The Buddha has a two-tier usnisa, wide forehead, round face, and long earlobes which are damaged. He wears a necklace, ornaments, a bracelet, and an armlet. A stole is draped around the wide shoulders, and the slender waist is adorned with a lower garment decorated in a scroll leaf pattern. The left hand is held in front of the abdomen, while right forms the varada (wish-granting) mudra. He sits in full lotus position on a lotus throne edged with a bead pattern. |
