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SculpturePottery votive tablet
It is a votive tablet that looks like a triangle shape. In the middle is a Buddha image Sheltered by a Naga. The right side is believed to be Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva and the left side is Prachya Paramita. There is a curved frame surrounds the three sculptures and it is supported by a lotus base.
SculptureAvalokiteshvara Bodhisattva
The Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva is standing on a square base. The face is square. The eyebrows are sharp and the eyes are widely open. The nose and the mouth are well balanced. The image wears pointed round shape earrings and there is a crown that is composed with a visor and a tiara in a cone shape that can be compared to idols in Nakon Wat style. At the center of the tiara appears a trace of an image that its detail was cracked out. The Buddha image on the tiara is a feature of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, so it is believed that this is his sculpture. The image at the center of the tiara isAmitabha Buddha who gave life to Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva. The upper part of the body is bare and the lower part is wearing shorts engraving straight lines and the hem under the stomach is curved. In the middle appears the hem in a shape of a fish tail. This is a style of sculptures in Nakorn Wat Arts. All 4 hands are holding onto an object that belongs to him. The lower right hand is holding a lotus flower. The upper right hand is holding beads, the lower left hand is holding a scripture, and the upper left hand is holding a conch shell.
SculpturePhra Phaisachayaguru
The sculpture is sitting on a base in a meditation position, decorated with lotus petal pattern. It is wearing a crown with a visor and layers of tiaras and round shape earrings on the ears. The upper part of the body is bare and both hands are holding a pot of water in a stomach position.
SculpturePhra Phaisachayaguru
The sculpture is sitting on a base in a meditation position, decorated with lotus petal pattern. The face is in a square face. It is wearing a crown with a visor and layers of tiaras and round shape earrings on the ears. The upper part of the body is bare and both hands are holding bolts in from of the stomach.
SculpturePhra Phaisachayaguru
The sculpture is sitting on a base in a meditation position, decorated with lotus petal pattern. The face is in a square shape. The eyebrows are sharp and nearly straight and the eyes are widely open. The mouth is protruding. It is wearing a crown with a visor and layers of tiaras and round shape earrings on the ears. The upper part of the body is bare and both hands are holding bolts in front of the stomach.
SculptureThe radiant Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva
The radiant Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva is in a standing position but with missing limbs as in the head, hands, shins, and feet. The chest, shoulders and upper arms of the body are decorated with many rows of Buddha images that looks like armor.There is a large image of a person in the middle of the chest and the waist and this might refer to Prachya Paramita. The image wears shorts with roughly engraved pattern. Its lower body from the thigh to the feet is in disproportion according to the sculpture in Bayon style.
SculptureMaitreya Bodhisattva’s head
The Maitreya Bodhisattva’s head is a convex sculpture located on a cave wall but it was secretly extracted. The face of the sculpture is long with arched eyebrows. The eyes are look downward. The nose and the mouth are well balanced. The long hair is put up in a bun above the head in a large cylinder shape. The layers of hair form an image of a stupa in the middle of the bun.
SculptureBodhisattva’s head
This Bodhisattva’s head was damaged but it has been preserved until it was restored. The face of the sculpture is long with arched eyebrows. The eyes look downward. Originally, some jewels or valuables may had been buried inside the eyes but they had disappeared. The nose and the mouth are well balanced between a mustache. The long hair is put up in a bun above the head in a large cylinder shape. The hair is decorated with layers of Fish Roe Pearls. The symbol that was placed in the middle of the bun was lost. Therefore, it is unknow which Bodhisattva this sculpture is.
