LOPBURIS BUDDHA HEAD
SANDSTONE
LOPBURI SCHOOL-LATER STYLE
CIRCA 12th-13th CENTURY
32 cmx12.5 high

EXHIBITED: Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, Spring, 1971

DESCRIPTION: A life-size, lovely weathered head of the lord Buddha from the later style of the Lopburi School. Lopburi stone sculptures have a strong expressive charachter. The half open eyes and the hint of the smile make this piece very appealing to the viewer. Lopburi was an outpost of the Khmer empire and the Lopburi school, while influenced by the art of Khmer, active for almost 1000 years until the 17th Century.