Thailand: Sculpture

SEA03
Head of Buddha
terra-cotta
northern Thai, Lamphun
Haripunjaya school, 12th/13th century
height 17.8cm

 
ex: David Jones' Art Gallery, 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
published: Jane Carnegie, Oriental art: Works of art from China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia, Melbourne, May 1981, number 25, page 14 (exhibition catalogue)

 
note: the dating of this piece is consistent with the results of a thermoluminescence test, Australian National University, Canberra, Test No. 304, 1977