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Exhibition Name
About Buddhist Sculptures from Unified Silla Period
- Nationality/Period
Unified Silla Period
- Provenance
Yeongdeok-gun
- Materials
Metal - Gilt-bronze
- Category
religion - Buddhism - adoration - image of Buddha
- Dimensions
H. 12.0cm
- Accession Number
Bongwan 12853
- Location
Buddhist Sculpture Gallery
This sculpted statue portrays a seated apsara, or heavenly musician. The image of apsara used to be inscribed mainly on the mandorla of a Buddhist statue or the platform of a stone pagoda. Another example of the image of apsara portrayed as a three-dimensional sculpture such as this is the shrine-shaped gilt-bronze sarira reliquary unearthed from the West Three-story Stone Pagoda at the Gameunsa Temple Site.
