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■ ƒ24 PROVENANCE:
STATUE DE BOUDDHAMUCHALINDA Property from an important European collection,
EN GRES acquired by the family of the present owner,
CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE BAYON, 17 November 1970, and thence by descent.
FIN XIIEME - DEBUT XIIIEME SIECLE
AN IMPORTANT SANDSTONE FIGURE OF
Il est représenté assis en sattvasana sur les anneaux BUDDHAMUCHALINDA
enroulés du naga dont les sept têtes lui servent
de canopée. Son torse est dénudé, ses mains en CAMBODIA, KHMER, BAYON PERIOD,
dhyanamudra. Il est vêtu d’un sampot. Son visage aux LATE 12TH - EARLY 13TH CENTURY
yeux mi-clos est empreint d’une expression sereine.
Ses cheveux sont bouclés et surmontés de l’ushnisha. 柬埔寨 高棉帝國 巴戎寺時期
Hauteur : 147 cm. (57æ in.), socle 十二世紀末/十三世紀初 砂岩目支鄰陀坐像
來源：
€60,000-80,000 $66,000-87,000 歐洲重要系列珍藏 ，由藏家於1970年11月17日
£54,000-72,000 購入，家族傳承
The concept of this particular iconographic subject
goes back to a specifc event in the life of Buddha
Shakyamuni in the sixth week after his Enlightenment
at Bodhgaya in northern India. One day, when he
was meditating, a thunderstorm broke out and the
serpent king, named Muchalinda, emerged from its
subterranean abode, extending its large hood over
the meditating Buddha in order to protect him during
his meditation. This iconographic idiom became very
popular in Cambodia during the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries.
The French Khmer expert Jean Boisselier (1912-1996),
member of the French School of the Far East (Ecole
française d’Extrême-Orient), wrote on 22 March 1983
an essay on this piece, ‘Bouddha Protegé par le Naga‘.
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