Unknown Artist
- Title
- Seated Buddha
- Place of origin
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Central Java →
Java →
Indonesia
- Cultural origin
- Central Javanese
- Year
- 9th century
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- copper alloy
- Dimensions
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12.5 x 7.0 x 4.2cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- D G Wilson Bequest Fund 2000
- Accession number
- 1.2000
- Location
- Upper Asian gallery
- Further information
This seated Buddha with elongated proportions and defined facial features dates to around the 9th century and is stylistically from the Central Javanese period, drawing its influences from Buddhist images produced in Southern India around Amaravati and continuing at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. Stylistic features which suggest this influence include the slender body and elongated face, the drape of the robe worn in the 'open mode', the subtle modelling of the 'ushnisha' and the characteristic mark of 'urma' at the centre of the forehead.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, February 2000.
- Bibliography (2)
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'Sensuous Spirituality: Hindu and Buddhist Art from the Indic Cultural Realm' by Pratapaditya Pal, pg. 80-87., Orientations Sep 2000, Sep 2000, 81 (illus.). fig.2
The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 338 (colour illus.).
