Standing Buddha, anonymous, anonymous (rejected attribution), c. 700 - c. 800

Title(s)

Standing Buddha

Object type

• sculpture
• figure

Object number

AK-MAK-193

Description

Boeddha, rechtervoet is bijgemaakt, rechterhand in abhaya-mudra, de linker in witarka-mudra. Het beeld is gemaakt van brons om een cement-achtige kern.

Artist

• brazier: anonymous

Place

Oost-Java

Dating

c. 700 - c. 800

Physical features

bronze with gold ushnisha

Material

• bronze (metal)
• gold (metal)

Measurements

height 42.0 cm × width 12.0 cm × weight 3.786 kg × weight 8 gr

What

• Buddha, founder of Buddhism

Credit line

• On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase heirs F.L. Broekveldt, 1940)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Aziatische kunst, cat.nr. 29
• Asian art, cat.nr. 29
• Ancient Indonesian sculpture, Marijke J. Klokke, Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer, p. 33-35, 45, pl. 2
• The sculpture of Indonesia, cat.nr. 35
• Buddhist sculptures of Sri Lanka, p. 176, pl. 43E
• Divine bronzes : ancient Indonesian bronzes A.D. 600 to 1600 : catalogue of the exhibition organised in collaboration with the Society of Friend of Asiatic Art held in the Department of Asiatic Art, p. 53, cat.nr. 1
• Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 173, cat.nr. 185
• The art of Buddhism, Dietrich Seckel, pl. 13
• Kunst des Ostens : Sammlung Preetorius, Roger Goepper, Andreas Lommel, Emil Preetorius, p. 29, 31
• Oosterse schatten : 4000 jaar Aziatische Kunst [ : 1 1954a], cat.nr. 571
• Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 217
• Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten
• Catalogus der tentoonstelling van Indische beeldhouwkunst in het Gemeente-Museum te 's Gravenhage ... van 17 Sept. tot half Oct. 1922, cat.nr. 30
• Wisseling in het paviljoen : ancient Asian bronze : images and ritual objects, William A. Southworth
• Peter J.J. de Bruijn, 'De boeddha met de gouden ushnisha', Aziatische Kunst 28/2 (1998), pp. 18-27.
• P.H.D.H. de Silva, A catalogue of antiquities and other cultural objects from Sri lanka abroad, Colombo, 1975, p. 375 (?), pl. 74 (?).
• M. Levi d'Ancona, 'Amaravati, Ceylon and three 'imported bronzes'', Art Bulletin XXXIV (1952), fig. 14, 17
• D. Barrett, 'The later school of Amaravati and its influences', Indian Art and letters XXVIII (1954), p. 50, 52
• P. Dupont, L'Archéologie mône de Dvaravati, Paris 1959
• David Snellgrove (ed.), The image of the Buddha, Paris/Tokyo 1978
• Choix de sculptures des Indes, pl. X, XI.
• Indonesiën, in Propyläen Kunstgeschichte, p. 294, Abb. 320.