A SILVER FOIL FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI AS MENDICANT Thailand, 19./ 20. Jh. H. 24,6 cm (31 cm mit Stand) Standing on a lotus-base with both hands in front of his abdomen supporting the alms-bowl, wearing monastic garment including mantle covering both shoulders, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into his nose-bridge, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, his curled hairdo continuing into the low ushnisha and topped with a lotus-bud, clay core. From an old Munich private collection, collected between 1980 and 2000 Partly minor repairs