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second half of the 8th century · Copper alloy · Asian Art

The iconographic configuration in this Buddhist triad was favored in the Mon territories of Thailand and widely propagated in the Srivijayan regions of peninsular Thailand and Sumatra. This triad with a central Buddha flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya identified by their crown insignias—the Amitabha Buddha and a stupa, respectively—came to be of paramount importance in early ninth-century central Java. Several major temples were built under royal patronage with these ensembles (albeit with all the figures seated) as their principal cult images, those at Candi Plaosan Lor and Candi Mendut being the best preserved. cat. no. 162

Artist

Unknown

Date

second half of the 8th century

Medium

Copper alloy

Culture

Sumatra or southern Thailand

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of John and Evelyn Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1984