Standing Buddha

Pagan period, about 12th century

Burma (Myanmar)
Pagan

This standing bronze Buddha with rare silver inlaid eyes comes from Pagan, the capital city of an eponymous kingdom that flourished in Myanmar (formerly Burma) between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. Situated along the Irrawaddy River, Pagan was once home to thousands of Buddhist temples, monasteries, and stupas. This sculpture exhibits iconographic and stylistic continuities with roughly coeval portable bronze images cast in southeastern India. Note, for instance, the frilled double-hem of the Buddha’s gossamer sanghati (monastic robe), which is a common feature of Buddhist processional bronzes from the coastal entrepôt of Nagapattinam. This sculpture thus attests to the robust networks of exchange across the Indian Ocean.

Status: On View, Gallery 140
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Standing Buddha
Place: Myanmar (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1001–1100
Medium: Bronze inlaid with silver
Dimensions: 47.4 × 21.5 × 10.1 cm (18 11/16 × 8 1/2 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2016.106
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