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A SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI, MON-DVARAVATI PERIOD
奥地利 北京时间
2023年03月09日 开拍
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A SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI, MON-DVARAVATI PERIOD
Thailand, 8th-10th century. Sensitively carved with heavy-lidded downcast eyes with incised pupils, thick ridged brows, a broad nose, elongated earlobes, and full lips forming a calm smile, the hair in snail shell curls over a high ushnisha.

Provenance: Collection Monsieur M., an important French private collection. Michael Phillips, acquired from the above. Michael Phillips (born 1943) is an Academy Award-winning film producer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, his parents were Lawrence and Shirley Phillips, noted New York dealers in Asian fine arts, selling to the Met, the LACMA, the Chicago Art Institute, and the British Museum among others. Michael Phillips is a collector of Asian art himself, particularly Indian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan sculpture. His most important films include The Sting (winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1973), Taxi Driver (winning the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival), and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Old wear, losses, nicks, scratches, very minor old fills, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, structural cracks. Fine, naturally grown patina.
Scientific Analysis Report: A technical examination was conducted by Podany Conservation Services. The examination report concludes: “A comparison of observed features does favor the opinion that the head fragment is not of modern origin or a forgery.” The signed examination report, dated 24 May 2021, accompanies this lot. Note that the purported date stated in the examination report is circa 9th-11th century.

Weight: 3,340 g (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 17.5 cm (excl. stand) and 25.5 cm (incl. stand)

Mounted on an associated stand. (2)

While there is great variation within the Mon-Dvaravati tradition, the sensitivity paid to the modeling of these facial features is in keeping with the period’s focus on the purity and fluidity of form. As expressed by Jean Boisselier in The Heritage of Thai Sculpture, 1975, p. 73, “The school of Dvaravati may stand alongside the great Buddhist artistic traditions of India, so enduring were its innovations and so persuasive its influence on most of the art of Southeast Asia.”

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related sandstone head of Buddha in the National Museum Bangkok, dated 8th-10th century, with nearly identical facial features.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s Paris, 12 June 2018, lot 239
Price: EUR 15,000 or approx. EUR 18,000 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A stone head of Buddha Shakyamuni, Thailand, Dvaravati period, 8th-9th century
Expert remark: Despite being a larger example (32 cm), this comparable shares very similar facial characteristics with the current lot, including a flattened down-turned nose, a joined brow, pointed helices of the ears, and a lower lip equal or greater in size to that of the upper.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams New York, 19 March 2019, lot 874
Price: USD 43,825 or approx. EUR 46,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A blackstone head of Buddha, Central Thailand, Dvaravati period, circa 8th century
Expert remark: Note the size (23.5 cm).

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