Important wooden crowned buddha, Myanmar / Burma, 12th to 13th century The figure stands in samabhanga, with his right hand in varadamudra and the left holding a section of his garment. He wears a sanghati 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. This fine crowned Buddha figure from the Bagan empire 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 specially to neighbouring Bagan as Pala art can be seen as the model of Bagan art 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, published in Arts of Asia, by I. de Castro, ‘The LindenMuseum: The World in Stuttgart’, Hong Kong, March-April 2016, p. 116. -the Bagan national museum, Bagan/Myanmar, (published in the reference book: Myanmar Buddhist Imagery, by D. Lepage.) -the Metropolitan museum of art, New york. Accession Number:1992.382 Carbon 14 datation test done on this wood figure Period: Bagan / Pagan empire period, 13th century. Origin: Myanmar / Burma Size: 150cm high without stand, 211cm with stand. (the stand can be separated in 2 pieces) Provenance: Old German collection You will find also in copy the auction results of similar pieces.
94 - Important wooden crowned buddha, Myanmar / Burma, 12th to 13th century
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