RARE TORSE DE BOUDDHA SAKYAMUNI EN CALCAIRE GRIS-VERT

THAILANDE, DVARAVATI, VIIÈME-VIIIÈME SIECLE

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RARE TORSE DE BOUDDHA SAKYAMUNI EN CALCAIRE GRIS-VERT
THAILANDE, DVARAVATI, VIIème-VIIIème SIECLE
Représenté debout en samabhanga, les deux bras manquants, vêtu du samghati transparent, laissant voir son torse et son nombril, recouvrant les épaules et retombant en plis droits ; socle
Hauteur: 113 cm. (44½ in.)

Provenance

According to Mr. G. Halphen's archives, the sculpture was acquired in 1969 and found circa 35 km to the south of the city of U-thong (Thailand)

Further details

AN IMPORTANT GREENISH-GREY LIMESTONE TORSO OF BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI
THAILAND, DVARAVATI STYLE, 7TH/8TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

Stylistically and iconographically this sculpture represents the most well-known type of Dvaravati style examples of Buddha Sakyamuni. His rather broad and sturdy appearance seems to be based on the idealized formula of Post-Gupta West-India. This sturdy shape of the body suggests an earlier phase of the Dvaravati style of Central Thailand (7th/8th century).
Although both fore-arms are now missing, it is almost sure that, seeing the symmetrical composition of this image, they would have jutted out. Both hands probably would have been executed in the vitarkamudra, the most characteristic hand posture of this period.

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