Crowned Naga-Protected Buddha

Description During one of the weeks following his enlightenment, the Buddha Shakyamuni was sheltered from the rain by a serpent known as a naga. In Cambodia, the naga, in the form of a multi-headed hooded cobra, was considered to be the spirit of the irrigating rivers and canals as well as a rainbow-bridge to heaven.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/22/1994	Treatment	cleaned; other
6/27/1994	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• Unearthly Elegance: Buddhist Art from the Griswold Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995.

Provenance Luang Ban, Bangkok; Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, 1948 or earlier [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, December 1960, inv. no. 445, from foundation records: "Not from Lopburi but from Angkor Wat."]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.

Credit Bequest of A. B. Griswold, 1992