Cast Bronze Wednesday Buddha, 14 Inches

This standing Buddha statue is cast bronze with a gold finish and stands 14 inches tall. The right shoulder is bare, and the robe covers the other shoulder and falls to the ankles. Both hands hold a small alms bowl at the waist. The hair is a cap of curls under a flame-shaped finial, and the feet rest on a lotus atop a many-sided base with a patterned front panel.

In the Thai set of weekday Buddha images, the Wednesday figure stands holding an alms bowl, and people born on Wednesday often keep this image on a home altar. The gold is a surface finish, not solid gold.

The statue is made by the lost-wax method: a wax model is packed in clay, the wax is burned out, and molten bronze is poured into the hollow. When the metal sets, the clay is broken away and the surface is finished. One statue, base included. Dust gently and do not scour the gold.