Image of Avalokitesavara Samuntamuk Bhodisatava
- Object :
- Image of Avalokitesavara Samuntamuk Bhodisatava
- Art style :
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- Material :
- Bronze
- Size :
- 22.3 cm. high
- Era age :
- ca.15th-16th century BE.
- Feature :
- Avalokitasavara Bhodhisatava with 11 heads and 22 hands, quite round face wear visor and earings as end sharp panicle. Wear a pleated streak loincloth, lift the fabric large arcs in front of belly with the fabric anchor 2 layers hanging in front. Standing on 2 layers blossom lotus base, lower layer is spherical plain, mid base is pollen lotus pedestal, the Bhodhisatava was standing on pollen lotus pedestal. It is the base in Srivijaya style. The interested as style of this fine arts shown the influences of Khmer art in Khor Kae style, ca 15th century BE. but the excavation in Songkhla areas found with a gold coated steel snake in soil layer with base that described as to be the local art in the south, assumed that imitated from Khmer arts in Khor Kae style cause the period of 15th century BE. the arts in Khor Kae style was more extensive in Pra Nakorn city, Cambodia and Local of Northeast of Thailand or this sculpture was moved from Khmer to the south by contact trade or diplomacy.
- History :
- Found from Ban Khanun, Singha Nakorn district, Songkhla province.
- Venue :
- Songkhla National Museum
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