47. STATUETTE DE BOUDDHA ENSEIGNANT EN OR SUR UN TRÔNE EN ARGENT JAVA, IXE/XE SIÈCLE Image: 6.8 cm (2 5/8 in.) high; Throne: 14 cm ( 5 1/2 in.) high A GOLD FIGURE OF TEACHING BUDDHA ON A SILVER THRONE JAVA, 9TH/10TH CENTURY 爪哇 九/十世紀 說法佛金像並銀座 Provenance: With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970s With hands joined at the heart in the gesture of teaching, or turning the wheel of dharma, this rare, solid gold Buddha is cast with the customary squat proportions, tall domed head of curls, and prominent ushnisha during the height of Buddhist culture in Java at the end of the 9th century. The gold Buddha is paired with a silver throne with a lattice back-panel and disc umbrella to protect the Buddha. Compare to another gold Buddha on a contrasting throne in bronze (Miksic, Old Javanese Gold: The Hunter Thompson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery, 2011, p. 220, fig. 84). Compare also to a gold figure of Tara, seated on a silver throne in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (57.2282).