A bronze figure of the ascetic Sakyamuni China, late Ming Dynasty, 17th Century

cast as a slightly emaciated figure striding forward with hands clasped to his bare chest, draped in long robes wrapped around his shoulders and swirling evocatively at the hems as if blown by a celestial wind, his gaunt bearded face with a fervent expression with a simple urna and a high usnisha covered in tight curls of hair (burlwood stand)