 Greyish brown sandstone head of the Buddha Muchalinda Current and Past Exhibitions
11. Greyish brown sandstone head of the Buddha Muchalinda. Khmer, Angkor Period, Bayon style.Late 12th — early 13th century.H. 35 cms, 13 ¾ ins. Provenance: Private Swiss Collection, acquired between1945-1975.Reference: See catalogue no. 94 in Angkor et dix siècles d’art Khmer, Exhibition catalogue, Paris: Reunion des Musées Nationaux, 1997.
|  Sandstone head of a Jain Tirthankara (Jina). Current and Past Exhibitions
5. Sandstone head of a Jain Tirthankara (Jina). Northern India, Probably Uttar Pradesh.10th - 11th century.H. 15 cms, 6 ins.An exquisite pale buff sandstone head of a Jain Tirthankara (Jina), sensitively modelled with a benign, tranquil expression beneath bow-shaped brows. The principal Jain pantheon consists of twenty-four Tirthankaras (or saviours), the first being Rishabhanatha and the last Mahavira. A Tirthankara, or Jina has successfully passed through all the cycles of rebirth to create a passage for believers. Mahavira (c. 599-527 BC) was a historical figure and a near contemporary of the Buddha. For a comparable head, see fig. 53 in J. C. Harle and A. Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1987.
|  Grey sandstone torso of an apsara Current and Past Exhibitions
10. Grey sandstone torso of an apsara (a devata or celestial dancer).Khmer, Angkor period, Angkor Wat style.12th century.H. 31 cms, 12 ¼ ins. Provenance: Private Swiss Collection, acquired between1945-1975.Reference: See cat. 121 in M. Giteau, Khmer Sculpture and the Angkor Civilisation, London: Thames and Hudson, 1965.
|  Bronze head of the Buddha
2. Bronze head of the Buddha.Burma, Pagan, circa. 12th century.H. 17 cms, 6 ¾ ins.Provenance: Private English collection.Reference: See no. 15 in P. Strachan, Pagan: Art and Architecture of Old Burma,Kiscadale Publications, 1989.
|  Bronze seated Buddha Current and Past Exhibitions
9. Bronze seated Buddha.Laos, 19th century.H. 50 cms, 19 ½ ins.A deep brown patinated bronze figure of a Buddha, seated on a high pedestal with his right hand in bhumisparsimudra (the gesture of ‘summoning the earth to witness’), the face smiling and serene beneath a conical usnisha rising to a lotus bud knop.Reference: For two similar 19th century Buddhas see page 242 (lower left and right) in S. Lopetcharat, Lao Buddha: The Image and Its History, Bangkok: Siam International Book Company, 2000.
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