The Buddha stands upright. The right hand is in front of the chest. The fingers form the Ahaga mudra; the mudra that dispenses fearlessness. The right arm points downwards and is close to the body. The bronze is covered with a layer of gilded lacquer, which has flaked off in places. The figure comes from a monastery near Phitsanulok, Thailand.
Provenance
[...] - 1942 Ostasiatica collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; in 1942 large parts of the Ginsberg collection in Rotterdam were confiscated by the Sicherheitsdienst (SD); whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Wiedergutmachungsakte im Landesarchiv Berlin: LAB, B Rep. 025-02 Nr. 233/57; undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921
