This small image follows closely the iconography and style of the larger figure of Buddha to the left, but its function was much different. Such portable images would have been used as votive offerings at monasteries, personal icons or sacred souvenirs for pilgrims.
Details
- Title: Buddha Shakyamuni
- Date: 5th-6th century
- Medium: Brass
- Dimensions: 15-5/8 x 5-1/8 x 4 in. (39.7 x 13.0 x 10.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation, from the Estate of Jennifer Jones Simon
- Accession Number: M.2010.1.205.S
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
- Schroeder, Ulrich von, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, no. 3B pp. 72-73, 78
- McArthur, Meher, Reading Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Guide to Buddhist Signs and Symbols, 2002, ill. 1 pp. 26-27
- Pal, Pratapaditya, Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Volume 1: Art from the Indian Subcontinent, 2003, no. 23 p. 55
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1641 p. 430
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