Buddha with Hands in Gesture of Teaching, Vitarka Mudra
600s
- Medium
- bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- Thailand, Mon-Dvaravati period
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Made during the early phase of Buddhist art production in mainland Southeast Asia, this Buddha wears a plain robe that indicates the artist's awareness of images made at the workshops of Sarnath, on the Ganges River in India. The hem of the lower garment, worn under the monk's robe, elegantly crosses the ankles, and the subtle line at the waist shows where it is secured.
