Bust of Buddha (c. 700): Art, History and Details
Bust of Buddha at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 700, limestone. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Bust of Buddha (c. 700) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
While the iconographic elements, such as elongated earlobes, cranial protuberance, and snail-shell curls derived from India, the local Mon people of Thailand gave their unique expression to the facial features of the Buddha. The beauty of sharply delineated eyes and stylized curling full lips was appreciated among the Mon, and these features impart an almost piercing serenity that is distinctive to Thai images from this early period of sculptural production in Southeast Asia.
Object facts
- Title: Bust of Buddha
- Date: c. 700
- Culture: Central Thailand, Dvaravati, Mon-Dvaravati style, 7th-9th Century
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: limestone
- Dimensions: Overall: 60.6 x 34.3 cm (23 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.)
- Collection: Southeast Asian
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 1969.56
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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