BUDDHA HEAD

STONE

AYUTTHAYA STYLE

CIRCA LATE 15^TH CENTURY.

15” HIGH; WITH BASE

EXHIBITED: Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York ,Spring 1971 Catalog exhibition entitled ‘Art of Thailand.’ Item 49 (Catalog Cover Illustration: Loan number 414.70L

DESCRIPTION: The elongated meditative face with downcast eyes, pronounced lips, defined chin, eyebrows in relief are characteristic of the middle Ayuthia style. The Sukhothai school influence may be seen where brows become eyebrows that arch over the eyes and plunge down the sides of the nose in two unbroken lines. The head is similar to figure 188 in Reginald Le May's book; A Concise History of Buddhist Art In Siam, Charles Tuttle pub., Tokyo 1962. (Ayutthaya , in the central plain area of Thailand, was the capital of the Thais from 1450 A.D. to 1778 A.D. when it was destroyed by the Burmese.)