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Seated Buddha

CultureThai
Datelate 15th century
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 23 3/4 × 18 1/2 inches (60.33 × 46.99 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number59-16
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 225
Exhibition History

The Arts of Siam, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, February 3–March 8, 1963, no cat.

Art of India and Southeast Asia: An Exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, May 17-June 14, 1964, no. 72 as Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness.

Provenance

With J. J. Klejman, New York, by 1959;

Purchased from J. J. Klejman by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

Published References

Krannert Art Musuem, Art of India and Southeast Asia: An Exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum, exh. cat. (Champaign: College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, 1964), 72, (repro.).

Dorothy H. Fickle, Images of the Buddha in Thailand. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), plate 13, 8, 61, 63, 65, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 393, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 284, fig. 13, (repro.).

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