Buddha figure

Lot 2540 limit € 40

Leg, carved, so-called Hotei or Budai, pot-bellied and depicted with crossed legs and a long robe, flat rectangular base, slight signs of age, total height approx. 3 cm; the name Hotei/Budai goes back to a Chinese mendicant monk from the city of Fenghua, who is said to have lived in the 10th century. In Japan, this Buddha form is one of the seven gods of happiness