SUI-TANG DYNASTY (AD 581-907)

The present figure of Buddha is seated in dhyanasana on an octagonal base with double lotus ring, with proper left hand resting on the corresponding knee, and right hand raised in abhaya mudra. Compare to a gilt-bronze figure of seated Buddha with Abhaya mudra, is in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in The Crucible of Compassion and Wisdom, Special Exhibition Catalog of the Buddhist Bronzes from the Nitta Group Collection at the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1987, p. 172, no. 75, another similar example sold at Sotheby’s London, 4 November 2020, lot 148; and another figure of seated Buddha with a more elaborate drapery, sold at Sotheby’s New York, 23 March 2022, lot 292.