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Seated Crowned Buddha, in Meditation
(Southeast Asia )
The combination of wide eyes and narrow mouth gives this image a rather severe expression. Though it is now obscured with lacquer and gilding, the crown is of standard Ayutthaya type, with raised-line ornament. The typical Ayutthaya crowned Buddha, with such features as the headdress of tiered rings, appears to have become established at the end of the 15th century or during the course of the 16th; after that, the sculptors varied little but the details of the decoration of the crown. The headdress of tiered rings has forerunners in the Hindu images of Sukhothai.
Inscription
Provenance
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Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, 1951 (?), [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, 1965, inv. no. 898 (originally no. 557)]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1995 | Unearthly Elegance: Buddhist Art from the Griswold Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Geographies
Thailand (Place of Origin)
Measurements
at knees: 26 9/16 x 12 11/16 in. (67.5 x 32.3 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.
54.2831