THAILAND, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

Name: A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
Brand: THAILAND, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
Price: 11000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 13,750

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USD 10,000 - USD 15,000

Closed: 23 Jul 2020

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI

THAILAND, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

Price Realised USD 13,750

Closed: 23 Jul 2020

Price Realised USD 13,750

Closed: 23 Jul 2020

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17³⁄₄ in. (45.1 cm.) high

Monogram Gallery, Bangkok.
Acquired from the above by Richard A. Kebbon, Jr., Illinois, 20 July 1964.

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Lot Essay

The classic posturing of the present lot is iconic amongst Buddhist imagery. Here, Buddha is seated in with the proper right hand touching in the earth in , at the moment of his enlightenment.

The flaming finial atop the , the snailshell curls, the diaphanous robes, and the tiered lotus throne with raised pearl edges all compare favorably with a fifteenth-sixteenth century Thai bronze figure of seated Buddha, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 1981.463), illustrated in "The Arts of South and Southeast Asia," , v. 51, no. 4 (Spring, 1994).