QING DYNASTY

The bare chested bald figure dressed in a drapery around his belly, standing atop a lotus pedestal with its left hand pointing towards to sky and its right hand pointing towards the ground.

According to popular folklore, Prince Siddhartha walked seven steps right after his birth, where each of these step was accompanied by the blossoming of a lotus flower. As he took his seventh step, with a finger pointing towards the sky and another finger towards the ground, the prince uttered a gatha, which posits that in all of Heaven and Earth, he wishes to liberate mankind from birth, old age, sickness, and death.

H 17 cm