Resin Budai Figurine with Handpainted Porcelain Trinket Dish
Item Details
A resin Budai figurine with a handpainted porcelain trinket dish. The twelve-sided dish features gilding at the rim and on the handle affixed to the surface of the dish. The piece is decorated with two seated Asian men above which a winged creature hovers. The dish is marked to the base ‘OK – Handpainted – Japan’. The Budai, or Laughing Buddha as he is also known, is depicted balancing a wood yoke behind his neck, with coins weighing down one end, with a peach on the other end symbolizing long life. He stands on a brown money sack tied with a red string. Asian characters are written into the side of the sack; there are no marks to the base.
Dimensions
- measured Budai.
Item #
17WDC149-073