Title: Vary old hand carved wooden Asian sitting figure
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: 15th Century
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Condition: Museum Quality
Item Date: 15th to the 19th centu
Item ID: 1199
Vary old hand carved wooden Asian sitting figure Praying Buddha, Wood Carving from India. This is a wood carving from India or Indonesia. A Buddha that was made into a gesture of Sitting buddha, from hard wood. All made of hand carved hard wood. Beautiful wood art made by traditional craftsmen. Buddha statue made of known carved wooden styles throw out India in the 15th to the 19th centuries.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wood_carving
To carve a figure in wood may be not only more difficult but also less satisfactory than sculpting with marble, owing to the tendency of wood to crack, to be damaged by insects, or to suffer from changes in the atmosphere. The texture of the material, too, often proves challenging to the expression of features, especially in the classic type of youthful face. On the other hand, magnificent examples exist of the more rugged features of age: the beetling brows, the furrows and lines neutralizing the defects of the grain of the wood. In ancient work the surface may not have been of such consequence, for figures as a rule being painted for protection and especially color.
