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A POLISHED SANDSTONE FIGURE OF BUDDHA, MON DVARAVATI PERIOD, 7TH-9TH CENTURY
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04月16日 下午5点 开拍 /14天2小时
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A POLISHED SANDSTONE FIGURE OF BUDDHA, MON DVARAVATI PERIOD, 7TH-9TH CENTURYThailand, 8th-9th century. Finely sculpted and sensitively carved, standing in samabhanga with his right hand raised. Wearing a diaphanous dhoti with an elegant waistline, draping from his outstretched arms, and pooling in pleats to the ankles. His serene face bearing a benevolent expression with full lined lips forming a calm smile, downcast eyes beneath arched brows, and his hair arranged in neat snail-shell curls around a domed ushnisha.Provenance: From the private collection of Marie Louise Alexienne Vanleew (1929-2024), Belgium, acquired in the early 1960s and thence by direct descent to her grandson, the present owner of this lot.Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, obvious losses, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, structural fissures, shallow surface scratches, minor nicks.Weight: 58.5 kg (incl. stand) Dimensions: Height 96 cm (excl. stand), 103 cm (incl. stand)Mounted on an associated stand. (2)Dvaravati art came into form around the 6th century by the Mon communities as part of numerous minor kingdoms that existed in Thailand. Surrounding geography proved treacherous for travel and thus provided a fair amount of isolation for the individual kingdoms. Isolation enabled the development of a highly sophisticated and distinct Mon-Dvaravati style.Early in the seventh century a new Buddha type appeared in Southeast Asia, inspired by innovations that were taking place in northern India. The wellspring was the important monastic school at Sarnath. Its workshops undoubtedly supplied Buddha images to a great variety of clients, including pilgrim-monks who would have purchased small images—often, one may surmise, made of wood—easily transportable to their homelands. This Buddha, slender and ethereal, is a superb example of the early acceptance of the northern Indian model of ideal Buddhahood, seen in the increasingly detached and otherworldly expression and the use of body-defining drapery.This figure is masterfully realized, with the delicate uttarasangha draped over both shoulders and ending in a curved hem at mid-calf. Below this, a second hem of the dhoti is visible at the ankles, and the artist has expertly carved where it nips into the soft flesh of the waist. The entire figure is described within a frame formed by the arms and robes, a metaphor for the restrained sensuality with which early Dvaravati works are carved. The graceful forms evolve out of Gupta prototypes, Sarnath in particular, in which the sensual curves of the earlier period are elongated into subtle contours, as in the present work.Literature comparison: Compare a closely related sandstone figure of the Buddha preaching, late 7th century, 94 cm high, in the collection of the Musée Guimet, reference number MG18891, and exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, April 14, 2014-July 27, 2014, cat. no. 44. Compare a closely related sandstone figure of Buddha, dated mid-7th century, 100.3 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1993.477.3, exhibited ibid., cat. no. 49. Compare a closely related sandstone figure of the Buddha, Central Thailand, first half of the 7th century, 171 cm tall, in the collection of the National Museum, Bangkok, reference number DV6, and exhibited ibid., cat. no 117.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Sotheby's New York, 17 March 2015, lot 1100 Price: USD 68,750 or approx. EUR 80,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A sandstone figure depicting Buddha, Thailand, Mon Dvaravati period, 7th-9th century Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling and similar style of the diaphanous dhoti, facial expression, and hair.

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