Buddha, The Universal Teacher – Antiquated Brass Statue

Height: 2.60 ft
Width: 0.90 ft
Depth: 0.80 ft

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Antiquated Brass Statue
This standing figure of Buddha, different from the khadagasana images of themeditating Jain teerthankaras, represents such phase of his life when forforty years he traveled from one place to other, from this end of India tothat, telling the suffering mankind the truth that he had realised andpropagating the religion of Three Noble Gems, Four Noble Truths andEightfold Noble Path. Amongst Buddha’s earliest representations in art,especially sculpture, Buddha’s standing images seem to have preceded othersand to have prevailed more. It was undoubtedly for votive use that hisimages came into being and it were primarily the walls of monasteries andchaityas where such images were carved. May be, the walls of these rock-cutmonasteries and chaityas allowed little scope for seated postures as theserequired greater depth perspective difficult to carve on a hardrock-surface. These walls, consisting of hard rocks, allowed greater scopefor relief images and it were standing icons that could better evolve inrelief technique.During the Gupta period the Buddhist sculptural art reached its zenith andhis standing images not only largely captured the art scenario and came outwith a tremendous variety of themes and styles but also excelled in theirplasticity, modeling and over-all excellence. Now besides the stone, metalwas another popular medium for these votive images. Devotees needed smallerand lighter images for personal shrines and sometimes to carry them from oneplace to the other. There also developed the fashion of gifting Buddha’sstatues. Obviously, being massive and heavy, the stone sculptures could suita monastery or shrine but not the other purposes. Metal casts better suitedfor such subsidiary purposes and hence by the middle of the Gupta periodmetal images were as much in vogue

List Price: $ 870.00

Price: $ 870.00

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