THAI STANDING BUDDHA

BRONZE, COVERED WITH GILT AND LACQUER

LATE AYUTTAHAYA /EARLY RATANKOSIN

CIRCA 18^th CENTURY

78.7 cm / 31” high w/base ( 94 cm / 37 ‘ w/ base

EXHIBITED: Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York spring 1971 Catalog exhibition entitled ‘Art of Thailand.’ Item 14 ; Loan Number 398.70L

DESCRIPTION: Buddha is shown in a royal sanghati in a gesture of abbaya-mudra affording protection (or in Thailand, restraining Kinsmen) leaving his right shoulder bear; his hair and usnia arranged in rows of small round curls. An iconographical detail is that all the fingers and toes are of the same size. This apparent anomaly is in conformity with the Digha Nikaya, a Pali text known as ‘The Dialogues of Buddha’ .The Pali commentary specifies that among the 32 iconographic items mentioned are that the four fingers of both hands and the five toes of each foot be the same length.

Placed in Private Collection