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Thai Sandstone Carving of the Head of A Buddha Image
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Thai Sandstone Carving of the Head of A Buddha Image, Ayutthaya, 15th Century. This sculpture has carved features with full lips outlined with an incised line known as a “trace”, the “U” of the chin broad, long aquiline nose , protruding large and arched eye lids with the eyes narrowly open revealing the pupils, over arching brow continuing the line of the nose, short forehead, a thin raised outline as the hairline surrounding the face, 6 rows of round boss hair curls to the domed usnisa covered in 5 rows of hair curls, large ears with attenuated earlobes reaching to the break at the neck, flat top to the usnisa and a flat area to the back of the head. The facial surface gessoed lacquered and gold leafed, the rest of the head with Varied surface mottling and lacquer remnants mostly revealing the sandstone texture of the material. Mounted with a post and drilled interior hole to a large solid teak block as a contemporary stand.
Condition: A sculpture fragment from a large Buddhist Image, The head has been removed at the neck and the flat area at the top of the head would indicate that another mortared segment would have originally been attached possibly an undulant unalom finial, otherwise remarkably fine.
Measuring: 23-1/8 inches high overall, the sculpture is 15 inches high x 10 inches wide x 10-1/4 inches deep. The wood base is 8-1/8 inches high x 7-7/8 inches wide x 7-5/8 inches deep.
Provenance:
with Kenneth Brown Jewelers, La Jolla 1968
Private Collector, San Diego
For similar examples see:
Christie’s Amsterdam, Indian Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, Tuesday 3 November 1998 p.50 lot 121 (featured on catalogue cover.)
Christie’s New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Art including 20th Century Paintings, September 23, 2004, p.57, lot 71.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, “Head of Gautama Buddha”, Accession number: 26.116
Cleveland Museum of Art 1946.241
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, B60S415.
- Dimensions:Height: 23.13 in (58.76 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 10.25 in (26.04 cm)
- Style:Other (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:Early Ayutthya Period, 15th Century.
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Point Richmond, CA
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