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STATUE DE BOUDDHA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE THAÏLANDE, STYLE SUKHOTHAÏ DU NORD, XIV/XVE SIÈCLE
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STATUE DE BOUDDHA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE
THAÏLANDE, STYLE SUKHOTHAÏ DU NORD, XIV/XVE SIÈCLE
With traces of lacquer and gilding.
33.5 cm (13 1/4 in.) high
With traces of lacquer and gilding.
33.5 cm (13 1/4 in.) high
Footnotes
A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF BUDDHA
THAILAND, NORTHERN SUKHOTHAI STYLE, 14TH/15TH CENTURY
泰國 北素可泰風格 十四/十五世紀 佛陀銅像
Provenance:
With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1980s
Ceasing to represent the Buddha in a Khmer manner, the emergent Thai kingdoms of Sukhothai and the more northern Lan Na developed their own emblematically Thai Buddha images in the 13th century. The classic features each adopted were subsequently comingled in various ways, particularly in workshops located between the two capitals, giving rise to a broadly classified Northern Sukhothai style.
This well-preserved sculpture pertains to a sub-category of Northern Sukhothai Buddha images classified by Stratton as the 'Thai Yuan' type, of which there are two closely related, important examples in the National Museum, Bangkok, and Wat Chedi Luang, Chiang Mai (Stratton, Buddhist Sculpture of Northern Thailand, 2004, p. 205, figs. 8.4 & 8.7). Sukhothai features abound in the present sculpture, from the 'single lotus' posture, the elegant abstracted fingers, the robe leaving the right shoulder bare, and the sash draped over the left shoulder reaching all the way to his navel. However, two ways in which it departs from the Classic Sukhothai style are a characteristically Northern flame above the ushnisha, which has a barbed silhouette compared to Sukhothai's even rippling flame, and a slightly rounder face. Nonetheless, the facial type draws close affinity with a 14th-century stucco head from Wat Phra Phai Lunag in Sukhothai Historical Park (Woodward, The Sacred Sculpture of Thailand, 1997, p. 152, fig. 153, no. 51).