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Object Type: figure
Museum number: 1969,0725.1
Description: Seated Buddha. A bronze figure of the Buddha with traces of gilding, seated in padmāsana with hands held in dharmacakramudrā. Image rivetted to a rectangular moulded base, the latter inscribed.
Production date: 6thC (early)
Production place: Made in: India
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Danesar Khera
Materials: bronze; gold
Technique: cast; gilded
Dimensions: Height: 330 millimetres; Width: 220 millimetres; Depth: 152 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Koezuka (1994) / Masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu Art from the British Museum (no. 21); Zwalf 1985 / Buddhism: Art and Faith (130); von Schroeder 1981 / Indo-Tibetan Bronzes (entry 43D); Smith & Hoey 1895 / Ancient Buddhist Statuettes and a Candella Copper-Plate from the Bāndā District; Ashton 1950 / The Art of India and Pakistan. A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (no. 197); Guy & Willis 2007 / L' Escultura en els Temples Indis: L'Art de la Devoció (no. 97); Sircar 1948-49 / King Harirāja of Bundelkhand; Sircar 1959-60 / Copper Coin of Harigupta; Willis 2014 / The Dhanesar Kherā Buddha in the British Museum and the ‘Politische Strukturen’ of the Gupta Kingdom in India
Location: On display (G33/dc52a/s1)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1990 20 Oct-9 Dec, Japan, Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.133 1991 5 Jan-20 Feb, Japan, Yamaguchi, Prefectural Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.133 1991 9 Mar-7 May, Japan, Osaka, National Museum of Art, Treasures of the British Museum, cat. no.133 1994, Kyoto National Museum, Masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu Sculpture from the British Museum 1994, Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Buddhist and Hindu Sculpture from the British Museum 2007 26 Jul-18 Nov, Spain, Barcelona, CaixaForum, L'Escultura en els Temples Indis. L'Art de Devocio.
Subjects: buddha
Associated names: Representation of: Buddha
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Pierre Jeannerat
Funder name: Funded by: Brooke Sewell Bequest
Acquisition date: 1969
Department: Asia
Registration number: 1969,0725.1

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