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Standing Buddha

A work made of bronze inlaid with silver.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of bronze inlaid with silver.

Date:

Pagan period, about 12th century

Artist:

Burma (Myanmar)
Pagan

About this artwork

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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