Seated Buddha (before 1424): Art, History and Details
Seated Buddha at the Cleveland Museum of Art: before 1424, gold with resin core. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Seated Buddha (before 1424) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This pristinely modeled Buddha was fashioned from a sheet of 24-karat gold, using the repoussé (hammering) technique. The figure is filled inside with a resin core. The style is typical of the last phase of Khmer art (800s–1400s), the Lapburi style, which combines characteristics of both Cambodian and Thai sculptural styles.
Object facts
- Title: Seated Buddha
- Date: before 1424
- Culture: Thailand, Ayutthaya, Wat Ratchaburana, 14th century
- Type: Sculpture
- Technique: gold with resin core
- Dimensions: Overall: 10.6 cm (4 3/16 in.)
- Collection: Southeast Asian
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Accession number: 1999.316
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
Further reading listed by the museum
- 30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space. London: Phaidon, 2007.
View the collection record
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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