Standing Buddha in "Abhayamudra"
(Southeast Asia )
Ordinary notions of stylistic development would suggest that this image dates earlier, but evidently somewhere there was a conservative workshop that produced images of this type through the 14th and even into the 15th century.
Inscription
Provenance
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Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, 1948 or before, [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, 1964, inv. no. 733]; Walters Art Museum, April 1977, by gift [under the auspices of the Breezewood Foundation].
Conservation
Date | Description | Narrative |
---|---|---|
1/31/1984 | Examination | examined for condition |
5/9/2017 | Examination | Examined and treated for exhibition |
5/9/2017 | Examination | The leaded tin bronze has active chloride corrosion from burial. The chloride corrosion or "bronze disease" was treated with a corrosion inhibitor benzotriazole. The relative humidity in the case will be kept at or below 40%. |
Geographies
Thailand (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Object without tang H: 22 1/16 × W: 8 3/16 × D: 5 1/8 in. (56 × 20.8 × 13 cm); Object including tang H: 24 × W: 8 3/16 × D: 5 1/8 in. (61 × 20.8 × 13 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Breezewood Foundation, 1977
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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54.2522