Dimensions: Height 44 cm ; Wide 12,5 cm ; Depth 11 cm

Weight: 3714 grams

buddha on rimmed round base above lotus plinth resting on 4 feet (one broken) the left arm raised to the body holding his wide garment , the right arm showing a mudra. This standing bronze Buddha 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 multi-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.