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STATUE DE BOUDDHAMUCHALINDA EN
BRONZE
CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE ANGKOR VAT,
XIIEME-XIIIEME SIECLE
Il est représenté assis en virasana sur les anneaux
du naga, ses sept têtes lui servant de dais. Ses
mains sont en dhyanamudra tenant un bol. Il est
paré de bijoux et est vêtu d’un samghati et d’un
uttarasangha. L’expression de son visage est
sereine, ses yeux en amande, le front rehaussé de
l’urna. Ses cheveux sont coifés en chignon conique
rehaussé d’une couronne ; accident.
Hauteur: 56,5 cm. (22º in.)
€40,000-60,000 $47,000-70,000
£36,000-53,000
PROVENANCE
Acquired by the present owner in the early 1990s.
A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF
BUDDHAMUCHALINDA
CAMBODIA, KHMER, ANGKOR VAT PERIOD,
12TH-13TH CENTURY
柬埔寨 吳哥窟時期 十二至十三世紀 銅目支鄰陀
坐像
來源：現藏家購於1990年代初期

The iconography of Buddhamuchalinda is
taken from a specifc event in the life of Buddha
Shakyamuni happening within six weeks of his
enlightenment at Bodhgaya in North India. It
relates the story of the serpent king Muchalinda
who emerged from his subterranean abode and
extended his large hood over the meditating Buddha
in order to protect him during his meditation as
a storm broke out. This representation became
one of the most popular iconographic images in
Mahayana Buddhist Cambodia during the twelfth
century. Its popularity was enhanced by the fact
that the serpent or naga played an important role
in the mythic origin of the Khmer kings. Often in
Mahayana Buddhist art of the eleventh and twelfth
centuries the Buddha is represented as both king
and monk as can be gleaned here from his lavish
adornment and simple monastic robe.
Jackie Menzies (ed.) publishes a comparable large
Angkor Vat Buddhamuchalinda example from
the Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase John L.
Severance Fund, in ‘Buddha: Radiant Awakening’, Art
Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2001, p. 128.

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