The pedestal and statue of this small-scale Buddha have each been cast in a single cast. The fact that traces of large habaki (protrusions that once connected the inner and outer molds) are found in three places on the back of the statue is a special characteristic generally found in gilt-bronze sculptures from the Unified Silla period.
 
Yasuo Inamoto 
Masterworks from the Nara Buddhist Sculpture Hall at the Nara National Museum. Nara National Museum, 2010, p.136, no.169.