Head of the Buddha

Description This lovely head approaches the early Bangkok style. Compared to other Ayutthaya heads, the face is broader, the mouth more horizontal, and the eyes closer to the brows. Sculptors have decisively turned away from the 17th-century style.

Exhibitions

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

Provenance Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, 1949 or earlier, [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, 1985, inv. no. 857]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.

Inscriptions none

Credit Bequest of A. B. Griswold, 1992