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Buddha - Bhūmisparśa Mudrā

The Buddha in the gesture of touching the Earth, calling her as witness to defeat the forces of Mārāis probably the most popular image of the Buddha in Thai religious art. This set of Buddha icons in the Bhūmisparśa Mudrā made out of semi-precious stones set in gilded brass base thrones inlayed with semi-precious stones is a dazzling specimen of the most recent Royal Era of Thai history, the Rattankosin Era that began in the late Eighteenth Century after the destruction of Ayutthaya by the invading Burmese in 1747 CE.

These were made in the Royal workshops of Bangkok in the early 19th Century.

The National Museum, Bangkok