Mandalay Wood Royal Buddha Statue From Burma

The Condition of this lovely old Mandalay statue overall is good, some of the thayo lacquer decoration along the front of the base has been worn and damaged with age. Loss of lacquer on the front area of the neck where some of the lacquer has worn off on the post that slots into the neck. Hands and head have been carved separately to the body and are removable, a headband of red glass mosaics runs across the forehead from ear to ear, and a glass stone is fixed in the centre of the forehead between the eyes representing the third eye.

This representation of the Buddha with dark skin colour is not so common most representations of the Buddha show him with light coloured skin. The Buddha, in reality, would have had the skin colour of most Indians from India which range from light to dark, and considering that the Buddha spent a lot of his mature years meditating and teaching outdoors, the sun would have darkened his skin colour considerably.