Standing Buddha, with Both Hands in ""Abhayamudra""

2nd half 18th century (Ayutthaya) 24 13/16 in. (63 cm);with tang: 26 15/16 in. (68.5 cm) Citation Source image

When the names of the poses of the Buddha were codified in the 1830s, double-"abhaya" was identified as "hâm samut," or "forbidding the ocean." The pose had in fact persisted throughout the Ayutthaya period, but how its meaning differed from that of the right-hand-"abhaya" pos...

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Thong Lo (vendor), Bangkok; Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, January 28, 1951, by purchase, [presented to the Breezewood Foundation, 1985, inv. no. 860]; Walters Art Museum, 1979, by gift.
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