Buddha Shakyamuni

$2250 $2050/piece

Buddha Shakyamuni or Akshobhya, the Buddha of the East is an one of the old collections in our store. The robust body of this early Buddhist seems to derive from the art of the North Indian post-Gupta period (seventh to eighth century), while its physiognomy is based on Central Asian prototypes of similar date. Few works of art from tenth-century Bhutan have survived, but what does remain seems to be an eclectic synthesis of elements drawn from the artistic traditions of Central Asia, Bhutan, India, Nepal.