Thailand: Sculpture

SEA02
Head of Buddha
terra-cotta with traces of black lacquer
from Nakhon Pathom or Mueng Fa Daed, north-east Thailand
Dvaravati period, 9th century
height 23.8cm

 
ex: Josef Neumann, Sydney, early 1960s
ex: Margaret Carnegie Collection, Holbrook, New South Wales, early 1970s

published: Art and Australia, volume 4, number 2, June 1966, page 40

 
note: the dating of this piece is consistent with the results of a thermoluminescence test, Australian National University, Canberra, Test No. 303, 1977