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Buddha

Malay Peninsula

6th century

Not on view

This Buddha, among the earliest known from Southeast Asia, was reportedly found in Malaysia in the 1950s. It exhibits distinctive features of deportment, gesture, arrangement of robes, and large flat curls that establish it as a work of non-Indian manufacture. Presumably based on imported models from the fifth- and sixth-century Deccan, this work makes clear the speed with which local workshops appropriated foreign models and made them their own. This bronze was likely associated with a Buddhist monastery active in the Malay Peninsula in the sixth century.
cat. no. 21

Buddha, Copper alloy, Malay Peninsula — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Buddha

Date: 6th century

Culture: Malay Peninsula

Medium: Copper alloy

Dimensions: H. 10 7/8 in. (27.5 cm); W. 3 1/8 in. (8 cm); D. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Lent by Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Gift of David Knight, 1993 (IS.61-1993)

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