Foliate Pedestal for a Buddhist Image
This foliate pedestal supported an icon (now missing), probably of a seated Buddhist deity in an articulated lotus-bud mandala. The finely modeled openwork design is enhanced with independently cast and gilded ornaments, two of which survive: a flame motif and a conch shell. The Burmese provenance is a reminder of the close connections that existed between eastern India and the Burmese kingdom of Pagan in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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