A WOOD FIGURE OF STANDING SEISHI BOSATSU (MAHASTHAMAPRAPTA)
EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
Carved and assembled from wood in yosegi zukuri technique and modeled as Mahasthamaprapta standing, both hands raise to the chest and held together in Namaskara mudra, gathered up into a high coiffure adorned with a crown, wearing robe open at the torso and falling in pleats, adorned with a necklace and elaborate pierced head-ornament of applied metal, inlaid crystals on the forehead and in the hair, the inlaid crystal eyes painted with black pupils ringed in red, set on a carved-wood lotus stand
15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm.) high with stand
A WOOD FIGURE OF STANDING SEISHI BOSATSU (MAHASTHAMAPRAPTA)
EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
Carved and assembled from wood in yosegi zukuri technique and modeled as Mahasthamaprapta standing, both hands raise to the chest and held together in Namaskara mudra, gathered up into a high coiffure adorned with a crown, wearing robe open at the torso and falling in pleats, adorned with a necklace and elaborate pierced head-ornament of applied metal, inlaid crystals on the forehead and in the hair, the inlaid crystal eyes painted with black pupils ringed in red, set on a carved-wood lotus stand
15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm.) high with stand