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80 This elegant bronze is cast with well-balanced proportions and crisp
A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF BUDDHA lines for its robes and facial features. While its double arched base
Thailand, Sukhothai period, 15th/16th century is emphatic, the face is more stylized than earlier Classic Sukhothai
Seated in half-lotus position on a double-arched platform, his right bronzes, and may indicate Kamphaeng Phet as a point of production.
hand in bhumisparsha mudra, bearing inlaid eyes and a flame ushnisa. Compare related pieces in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore,
23 in. (58.4 cm) high published in Woodward, The Sacred Sculpture of Thailand, London,
$30,000 - 50,000 1997, pp. 144 & 154.

泰國 素可泰時期 十五／十六世紀 銅佛坐像

Established in 1238, the Sukhothai kingdom enjoyed a brief but Provenance
artistically brilliant period of independence until it acquiesced to Ayuttaya Sotheby’s, New York, 24 September 1997, lot 130
in 1583. Guided by itinerant Sinhalese Buddhist monks that frequented Private American Collection
the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, Sukhothai sculptors returned to
the ancient poetic descriptions of the mahalakshana (‘signs of a great
man’) to create a new idealized Buddha image, breaking away from
Mon and Khmer idioms. The flame ushnisha is a single common feature
that documents this cultural exchange with Sri Lanka.

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