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A STUCCO HEAD OF CROWNED BUDDHA A COPPER ALLOY HEAD OF CROWNED BUDDHA
Northern Thailand, Hariphunchai region, 13th century Thailand, Ayutthaya period, late Sukhothai style, 17th century
His confident face with a square jaw and broad features, surmounted The peaceful face with downcast eyes and pendant earlobes, adorned
by an elaborately tiered leaf-crown. with earrings and an intricately patterned diadem surmounted by his
12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm) high conical ushnisha.
$2,000 - 3,000 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm) high
$6,000 - 8,000
泰國北部 駭黎朋猜地區 十三世紀 灰泥戴冠佛首
泰國 大城時代 素可泰晚期風格 十七世紀 戴冠銅佛首
Compare to another Hariphunchai stucco head with broad features
and incised lines around the lips and eyebrows published in Stratton, Compare with similar heads of crowned Buddha offered at Bonhams,
Buddhist Sculpture of Northern Thailand, Chiang Mai, 2004, p.121. New York, 17 September 2014, lot 177; Sotheby’s, New York, 28
Also compare the crown leaves to an architectural panel from October 1991, lot 121; 16/17 March 1988, lot 137; and Sotheby’s,
Hariphunchai in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1986.506.14). London, 13 June 1988, lot 190.

Provenance Provenance
Collection of Dr and Mrs Robert Dickes, acquired in 1975 Private Californian Collection
Thence by descent

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