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Seated Buddha in "Marajivaya"
(Southeast Asia )
This is a Sihing-type image (or "lion") with characteristic short mantle, hand on the knee, and legs in "vajrasana." The pedestal is of Sinhalese type, spreading outward from the legs to a vertical edge. Although many of the qualities (such as the undulant line at the waist) are not very different from those seen on images made in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, there is a stiffness in the modeling of the lips that sets the sculpture apart.
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Provenance
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Private collection, Bangkok; Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, January 14, 1951, by purchase [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, 1965, inv. no. 539]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1995 | Unearthly Elegance: Buddhist Art from the Griswold Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Thailand (Lan Na) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
at knees: 13 3/4 x 8 9/16 in. (35 x 21.8 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of A. B. Griswold, 1992
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.2740