A BRONZE HEAD OF BUDDHA PARE Thailand, Ayutthaya period, 17th ct. H. 36,5 cm The head cast with a serene facial expression displaying incised downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, faint smiling lips, elongated earlobes with bulbous earrings and the hair combed in a chignon secured with a crown cast with an intricate design of scrolling tendrils around a central stylized flower-head, traces of gilding. Estate of Dr. Otto Schwend (1892 -1951), collected in Thailand between 1926 and 1938 and since then continuously in the family's possession, collector's card B 22a Traces of age