A GILT- AND BLACK-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF BUDDHA AMIDA, JAPAN, Edo period, and lotos base. Seated in vajrasana with both hands resting on his lap in dhyanamudra, wearing monastic garment covering both shoulders and falling down in pleats, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes, inlaid urna, moustache framing his mouth, pierced elongated earlobes, the curled hair continuing into the ushnisha and set to the front with a beaded ratna; on a large associated base sculpted with a lotus bas dais placed on pedestal - Property from an old German private collection, mostly assembled in the 1970's - Partly chipped, traces of age