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Lot Essay
This fine cast head of Buddha Shakyamuni shows him with sublime inner tranquility imbued with deep spiritual feeling. It epitomizes the finest quality of Buddha images made in the Sukhothai kingdom of central Thailand during the fifteenth century. This style is characterized by an ovoid face with arched eyebrows continuing in a fluent line to the nose ridge ending in a downward point. The snail-shaped hair curls and the curled tips of the elongated earlobes are also typical.