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Head of Buddha
Not on view
This spectacular head is notable for its stylization and fine rendering of detail. This Buddha appears to represent a different workshop tradition from that of Nakhon Pathom, to which most of the monumental Buddhas are attributed. Rather, it can be associated with a workshop style centered farther north and represented by several large standing, preaching Buddhas, most notably those from Wat Khoi, Lopburi, and Wat Mahathat, Sukhothai. These monumental icons, and this head, are reminders of the remarkable mobility of large-scale religious icons in historical Thailand, as successive kingdoms appropriated the most potent icons of their predecessors.
cat. no. 115
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