• Early Joseon Dynasty
• Wood and clay
• duk 1192

This statue of a Buddha was carved from an assemblage of wooden splinters and overlaid with clay. The delicate parts, such as folded drapery over the back and the shoulders, and flowing drapes over the wrists, were sculpted in clay. The hardness of wood and the softness of clay equally contributed to the modeling of this statue. The elongated and upright body of the Buddha contrasts with the slightly downturned head. The rounded drapes over both knees in high relief, and the half-moon shaped jeweled knob on the cranium exhibit the traits of the Buddha statues produced in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.