Standing Buddha

anonymous, anonymous [rejected attribution], c. 700 - c. 800

Although this figure was found on Java, it was most likely made elsewhere and exported to Indonesia. The drapery folds of the monk’s robe are characteristic of Buddha figures from India or Sri Lanka. The protuberance on the head (ushnisha), a standard sign of the Buddha, is here made of gold and is a later addition.

Artwork typesculpture, figure, Boeddha-beeld
Object numberAK-MAK-193
Dimensionsheight 42 cm x width 12 cm x weight 3.79 kg x weight 8 g
Physical characteristicsbronze with gold ushnisha

Identification

Title(s)
Standing Buddha
Object type
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.

Creation

Creation
- bronze caster: anonymous, Oost-Java
- bronze caster: anonymous, Sri Lanka (possibly) [rejected attribution]
Dating
c. 700 - c. 800
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Material and technique

Physical description
bronze with gold ushnisha
Dimensions
height 42 cm x width 12 cm x weight 3.79 kg x weight 8 g

This work is about

Subject

Acquisition and rights

Credit line
On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase heirs F.L. Broekveldt, 1940)
Copyright
Public domain
Provenance
…; on loan from the widow F.L. Broekveldt to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1932;{Note RMA.} from her heirs, fl. 1,000, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1940;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Documentation

- H.F.E. Visser, Museum van Aziatische Kunst, Amsterdam 1952, p. 68, pl. 34, no. 217.
- S. Schastok, 'Bronzes in the Amaravati style' in Marijke J. Klokke & Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer (eds.), Ancient Indonesian Sculpture, Leiden 1994, pp. 33-35 & 45, Pl. 2.
- P. Dupont, 'Les Buddhas dits d'Amaravati en Asie du Sud-Est', Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extreme-Orient XLIX (1959), pp. 632-636.
- T.B. Roorda (ed.), Choix de sculptures des Indes, La Haye 1923, Pl. X & XI.
- P. Lunsingh Scheurleer & M.J. Klokke, Divine Bronze, Leiden 1988, pp. 19, 24-25 & 53, no. 1.
- U. von Schroeder, Buddhist sculptures of Sri Lanka, Hong Kong 1990, p. 182, Pl. 43E.
- F.D.K. Bosch, 'Het bronzen Buddha-beeld met den gouden ushnisha', Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten 17, No. 12 (Dec. 1940), pp. 322 & 324-328.
- P. Lunsingh Scheurleer (ed.), Asiatic Art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1985, p. 173, fig. 185.
- H. Härtel & J. Auboyer, Indien und Südostasien (Propyläen Kunstgeschichte 16), Berlin 1971, p. 294, pl. 320.
- P.J.J. de Bruijn, 'De boeddha met de gouden ushnisha', Aziatische Kunst 28/2 (1998), pp. 18-27.
- J. Fontein, The Sculpture of Indonesia, Washington 1990, pp. 178-179, no. 35.
- D. Snellgrove (ed.), The image of the Buddha, Paris/Tokyo 1978
- Vereeniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, Catalogus der Tentoonstelling van Indische Beeldhouwkunst, Den Haag 1922, p. 44, no. 30.
- M. Levi d'Ancona, 'Amaravati, Ceylon and three "imported" bronzes', Art Bulletin XXXIV (1952), 'No.1, p. 15, fig. 14.
- D. Barrett, 'The later school of Amaravati and its influences', Indian Art and letters XXVIII (1954), p. 50, 52

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