Cleveland Museum of Art
Bust of Buddha
- Date
- c. 700
- Medium
- limestone
- Culture
- Central Thailand, Dvaravati, Mon-Dvaravati style, 7th-9th Century
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
While the iconographic elements, such as elongated earlobes, cranial protuberance, and snail-shell curls derived from India, the local Mon people of Thailand gave their unique expression to the facial features of the Buddha. The beauty of sharply delineated eyes and stylized curling full lips was appreciated among the Mon, and these features impart an almost piercing serenity that is distinctive to Thai images from this early period of sculptural production in Southeast Asia.
The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.
Head of Buddha, probably the Buddha Sakyamuni
Harvard Art Museums
Seated preaching Buddha
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Buddha Head
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Buddha
Cleveland Museum of Art
Head of Buddha
Art Institute of Chicago
Buddha subduing Mara
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Standing Buddha
Art Institute of Chicago
Head of the Buddha
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Crowned Head
Art Institute of Chicago
Standing Buddha with Hand in Gesture of Teaching (<em>Vitarkamudra</em>)
Art Institute of Chicago
Buddha Head
Art Institute of Chicago
Figure of Buddha
Minneapolis Institute of Art