A Gilt Bronze Figure of Buddha Shakyamuni

INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 10TH/11TH CENTURY

細節

A Gilt Bronze Figure of Buddha Shakyamuni
India, Pala period, 10th/11th Century
Standing in samapada on a circular lotus pedestal with his right hand in abhaya mudra and his left hand in vitarka mudra holding the tip of his robe, with his sanghati tightly wrapped around his body revealing his muscular form and falling in pleats beside his ankles, his rounded face in an expression of calm with incised undulating brow, circular urna, almond-shaped eyes looking forward, and lips curled in slight smile flanked by long pendent earlobes, his hair arranged in beaded rows of curls rising to a domed ushnisha surmounted by a bud-shaped cintamani
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

來源

Pan-Asian Collection

拍品專文

This exceptionally finely modeled figure relates stylistically to bronzes found at Kurkihar monastery, but is more pronounced in the modeling of the body, detailing even the stomoch muscles and knee caps. Striking similarities to Pagan period Burmese examples are also evident, in the general outline but more specifically in the facial features, evidence of this being the defining archetype for dissemination to Southeast Asia.