IMPORTANTE STATUE DE BOUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI PARE EN BOIS
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IMPORTANTE STATUE DE BOUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI PARE EN BOIS

BIRMANIE, EPOQUE PAGAN, XIEME-XIIEME SIECLE

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IMPORTANTE STATUE DE BOUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI PARE EN BOIS
BIRMANIE, EPOQUE PAGAN, XIEME-XIIEME SIECLE
The figure stands in samabhanga, with his right hand in varadamudra and the left holding a section of his garment. He wears a samghati and an elaborate necklace. His face displays a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, faint smiling lips and elongated earlobes. His hair is combed in a chignon topped with a finial and secured with a tiara.
63 in. (160 cm.) high, stand
Provenance
With Beurdeley & Cie, Paris, winter 1996.
Literature
Beurdeley & Cie, Art d'Asie, Paris, 19 September 1996, n° 14.
Further details
AN IMPORTANT WOOD FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI PARE
BURMA, PAGAN PERIOD, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

This fine crowned Buddha figure from the Pagan period (ca. 1050 – 1287), named after its capital, stands at almost life size. It was likely once placed in its own shrine, originally gilded and painted. The most distinctive iconographic feature is his elaborate crown. Crowned and bejewelled Buddhas became popular in northeastern India during the Pala period under the increasing influence of Vajrayana Buddhism. It symbolized the spiritual sovereignty of the Buddha. Its concept spread to neighbouring Pagan and further over the mainland of Southeast Asia to the Khmer empire around the same time. A comparable one is in the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, recently published in Arts of Asia, by I. de Castro, ‘The Linden-Museum: The World in Stuttgart’, Hong Kong, March-April 2016, p. 116.

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