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Subject:Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Geoff Sun, Jun 12, 2016 IP: 81.99.53.42 Dear Members, |
Subject:Re: Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Geoff Mon, Jun 13, 2016 At the risk of answering my own question, |
Subject:Re: Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Mike Mon, Jun 13, 2016 Hi, its not Burmese its from Indonesia probably Java and is of a type which has been made for a long time for the Tourist/Interior decorators market. |
Subject:Re: Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Michael O Mon, Jun 13, 2016 Try as hard as I could but I still could not find any reason to believe that this was ever part of a larger statue. It was made as a bust and going by that, as well as the plaster-looking material on the base (which I suppose is the core), my opinion that this is a new work. That may the reason why it is of such a mix of styles. |
Subject:Re: Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Geoff Tue, Jun 14, 2016 Yes, i have now searched for Javanese busts, and found a number of similar busts made for the interior decorating market, and just plain fakes. But, they appear generally as quite inferiorly sculpted, and none i have seen have been made in sections. There is no core material present, it is verdigris. Still it could be a fake, though great effort has been made in making it appear correct; the chaplets, the realistic verdigris, made in sections and welded together, the saw marks to the underside. Still could be fake, most fakes are copied in some way from the authentic. |
Subject:Re: Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Michael O Wed, Jun 15, 2016 hi Geoff, |
Subject:Re: Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Geoff Wed, Jun 15, 2016 Dear All, |
Subject:Re: Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Mike Thu, Jun 16, 2016 Try 'Divine Bronze - Ancient Indonesian Bronzes' by the Rijksmuseum for a good general overview. Most indonesian bronze Hindu/Buddhist figures where cast before the 11th century with relatively few in the later Hindu Javanese period. After Islam became dominant there would have been no figures cast until interest in the classical art was revived under the Dutch colonial government when copious copies where made - and still are being made. |
Subject:Re: Bronze Burmese Buddha Bust
Posted By: Peter Vredeveld Wed, Jul 06, 2016 I love this statue from Nepal. |
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