- Fulls size image
- On museum website
- Features
- Lotus on palm
- fine wavy lines on robes
- vitarka mudra: teaching
- urna on forehead represented accurately as a tuft of hair
- flame on top of head
- one shoulder covered
Although the museum website says that the hand posture is abhaya mudra, it is more likely vitarka mudra (teaching) because only three fingers are raised with the index finger touching the thumb.
- Period: Kandyan period (1480–1815)
- Date: 18th century
- Culture: Sri Lanka (Kandy district)
- Medium: Ivory with polychrome
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- Dimensions: H. 11 13/16 in. (30 cm); W. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)