Page 30 - 2019 September 11th Christie's New York Chiense Art Himalayan bronzes and art
P. 30

THE PROPERTY OF DOROTHY AND RICHARD SHERWOOD


          308
          A BRONZE HEAD OF BUDDHA
          THAILAND, LAN NA STYLE, 16TH CENTURY
          9Ω in. (24 cm.) high

          $6,000-8,000

          PROVENANCE
          Acquired from Peng Seng, Bangkok, 1958.
          The present work is stylistically associated with the
          kingdom of Lan Na, centered around the city of Chiang
          Mai in Northern Thailand. The Buddhist art of the Lan
          Na kingdom owed much to the art of the preceding
          kingdom of Sukhothai, which in the beginning of the
          fifteenth century began to be subsumed by the power-
          ful Ayutthaya polity. Compare the present head with a
          bronze figure of Buddha, dated by inscription to 1500,
          illustrated by H. Woodward, Jr. in The Sacred Sculpture
          of Thailand, London, 1997, p. 208, fig. 203.






















































          30
   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35