Country Group: South and Southeast Asia (Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam)

Item id: 594

This is a very fine and large 18thC Shan style Buddha with very distinctive styling. It was collected 35 years ago by a man who was living in SE Asia and who worked for Air America (i.e. the CIA). I recently bought a large part of his estate, which included several early rain drums, many bronze statues, early ceramics, and several other wonderful items. It has elements of a "Lotus Buddha", which are a particularly Burmese type of Buddha, which are for protection, especially from fire and theft. Often they