Mandalay, Upper Burma
19th Century
Height 14 3/4" plus custom museum mount
Provenance: Private collection, Honolulu, HI
Altfield, New York with label
This massive head of the Buddha has been carved from a single piece of marble and would have been part of a larger statue. The face is broad, squarish and flat with little attempt to showing the underlying bone area. The head has a bud-like cranial protuberance or unisha to signify the Buddha's wisdom.
Marble images of Buddha were a specialty of stone carvers of Mandalay, which has two main marble quarries - one in the Saygin Hills north of Mandalay and the other near Kauk-hse, south of Mandalay. A wonderful very heavy sculpture.
References: Fraser-Lu, S., & D.M. Stadtner, Buddhist Art of Myanmar, Asia Society Museum, 2015.
Lowry, J., Burmese Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2015.
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Mandalay, Upper Burma
19th Century
Height 14 3/4" plus custom museum mount
Provenance: Private collection, Honolulu, HI
Altfield, New York with label
This massive head of the Buddha has been carved from a single piece of marble and would have been part of a larger statue. The face is broad, squarish and flat with little attempt to showing the underlying bone area. The head has a bud-like cranial protuberance or unisha to signify the Buddha's wisdom.
Marble images of Buddha were a specialty of stone carvers of Mandalay, which has two main marble quarries - one in the Saygin Hills north of Mandalay and the other near Kauk-hse, south of Mandalay. A wonderful very heavy sculpture.
References: Fraser-Lu, S., & D.M. Stadtner, Buddhist Art of Myanmar, Asia Society Museum, 2015.
Lowry, J., Burmese Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2015.
INQUIRE HERE
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