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15th Century Thai U-Thong Bronze Seated Buddha browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Southeast Asian:Sculpture: Pre 1492: item # 941169 Please refer to our stock # 1122 when inquiring.
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Details: An attractive and pure example of an early Ayutthaya 15th century seated Buddha in the U-Thong type ‘C’ style. The Buddha is seated in Maravijaya, his right hand hanging heavily over his knee reaching to touch the ground with long, elegant, elongated fingers, while the left hand remains in a meditative position in his lap palm up. His face is serene with large heavy lidded downcast eyes and full smiling bud-like lips. In profile, the eyebrows almost imperceptibly project; they are defined by incising at the top and below. The eyeballs also project slightly and are deeply incised at the lower edge. Incisions outline the nostrils and there is a mango stone U inflection at the chin, one of Buddha’s identifying Lakshanas. He has elongated earlobes with a tall Ketumala made up of an undulant Unalom with tree flanking stems each side atop a high Usnisa of many tight curls. His robe is worn in the open mode across one of his broad shoulders and follows the long contours of his body down to a slightly plumb swollen waist above the outline of his undergarment, at which point his shawl terminates in a V notch as it also does on the reverse. Buddha is seated on a typically contracted three part Early Ayutthaya or U-Thong raised pedestal. Just a note on the period and classification of U-Thong Buddhas images: In 1350 the Prince of U-Thong founded Ayutthaya, which became the strongest and most prosperous kingdom in the South East Asian Peninsula. The new rulers of Ayutthaya saw themselves as the heirs to both the Thai tradition of Sukhothai and Khmer tradition of Angkor. Though they were Theravada Buddhists and gave generously to Buddhist temples, they also honoured the Brahmins and took over the Hindu ceremonies of the Angkorian Court. However, in April 1767 after a 15-month siege, Ayutthaya finally succumbed to the Burmese, the city was sacked and burnt, thus putting an end to one of the most politically glorious and culturally influential epochs in Thai history. It has become the custom to classify under the name U-Thong a varied and numerous category of bronze Buddha images. It is recognized that most of them might be more correctly termed “Early Ayutthaya” and a few “Pre Ayutthaya”; so the less specific appellation has stuck. They tend to be divided into three main categories: U-Thong A – 13th to 14th century, with Mon or Dvaravati influences. U-Thong B – 1350 -1425, with Khmer influences. U-Thong C – 1400 – 1475, with Sukhothai influences. Around the middle of the 15th century the U-Thong styles began to merge into an established Ayutthaya or National style that continued for more than 300 years. Age: 15th Century - U-Thong Type C. Height: 50 cm. Width: 29 cm (Across the bottom of base).
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