CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE BAYON, FIN XIIEME - DEBUT XIIIEME SIECLE

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STATUE DE BOUDDHAMUCHALINDA EN GRES
CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE BAYON, FIN XIIEME - DEBUT XIIIEME SIECLE
Il est représenté assis en sattvasana sur les anneaux enroulés du naga dont les sept têtes lui servent de canopée. Son torse est dénudé, ses mains en dhyanamudra. Il est vêtu d'un sampot. Son visage aux yeux mi-clos est empreint d'une expression sereine. Ses cheveux sont bouclés et surmontés de l'ushnisha.
Hauteur : 147 cm. (57 ¾ in.), socle

Provenance

Acquired by the family of the present owner, 17 November 1970, and thence by descent.

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AN IMPORTANT SANDSTONE FIGURE OF BUDDHAMUCHALINDA
CAMBODIA, KHMER, BAYON PERIOD, LATE 12TH - EARLY 13TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

The concept of this particular iconographic subject goes back to a specific event in the life of Buddha Shakyamuni in the sixth week after his Enlightenment at Bodhgaya in northern India. One day, when he was meditating, a thunderstorm broke out and the serpent king, named Muchalinda, emerged from its subterranean abode, extending its large hood over the meditating Buddha in order to protect him during his meditation. This iconographic idiom became very popular in Cambodia during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

The French Khmer expert Jean Boisselier (1912-1996), member of the French School of the Far East (Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient), wrote on 22 March 1983 an essay on this piece, ‘Bouddha Protegé par le Naga‘.

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