Description
The hands of this figure were originally held together in adoration. The Buddha's disciples share his small curls, but they bear no cranial bump (a mark of the Buddha's superhuman body).
Exhibitions
Unearthly Elegance: Buddhist Art from the Griswold Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1995.
Provenance
Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, 1985, inv. no. 861]; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.