｜Myanmar/Burma. 19th/20th c. Mandalay style.｜Wood carved, hands set in separately. Thayo lacquer in flat relief, gilded, with small, colored glass stones and mirrors (hman zi shwei cha). With both hands spreading the splendidly decorated coat standing on a small pedestal. The white face and hands refer to similar figures of marble or alabaster. The eyes inlaid in glass give the face a lively expression. Height 153cm. Condition A/B. One foot broken.｜Provenance:|-Private collection Berlin. 1975-78 aquired locally.| |Compare:|-R. Isaacs & R.R. Blurton: Visions from the Golden Land. Chicago 2000. Compare a similar one, but lacquered black: No. 77, p. 235-6.|-A similar standing, but red-lacquered Buddha in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum.