STATUETTE DE JAMBHUPATI COURONNÉ EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVREBIRMANIE, XVIIIE/XIXE SIÈCLE36.8 cm (14 1/2 in.) highProvenance: A COPPER ALLOY CROWNED JAMBHUPATIBURMA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY緬甸 十八/十九世紀 寶冠佛銅像Provenance:With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970sSeated inbhumisparsha mudra on a deeply waisted double lotus base is a Buddha wearing an elaborate crown. Crowned Buddha images first appear in East India. However, this remarkable headdress is distinctly Burmese, emerging initially in paintings and reliefs of the late-Pagan period. A similar larger bronze can be found in the British Museum (OA.1969.2-11.1), and another published in Pal,Sensuous Immortals, 1978, p. 157, no. 92b.