Votive Tablet of Buddha Shakyamuni, circa 1050-1100  

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Subject - Votive Tablet of Buddha Shakyamuni

Place of origin - Burma ( Myanmar )
Preiod - circa 1050-1100

Medium - Terracotta

Dimension - 5 1/2 x 4 3/8 in. (13.97 x 11.11 cm)

Current Location - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Museum no - (AC1997.72.1) Not currently on public view

Special note - Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Denis Robinson

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Object- Votive Tablet
Title- Votive Tablet, 12th century
Date- 12th century
Place of origin - Pegu, Burma
Techniques-Terracotta, deeply impressed from an intaglio mould
Dimensions- 3 3/8 x 2 3/8 x 3/8 in. (8.6 x 6 x 1 cm)

Current Location- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Museum number- M.91.237 ( Not currently on public view )
Note - Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Haskia Hasson (M.91.237)


The votive is not really sharp and clear but I think it's does not look like 12th Century. It could be 14th Century.


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11-12th C Burmese Votive at Harvard Art Museum  

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Here , one more votive tablet from Harvard Art Museum. This is very similar to the votive from Victoria & Albert Museum, so I believe need not to describe. I saw 3 line of script at the bottom of votive and if anyone could add more information, please feel free to left comments.



Votive Plaque Depicting Seated Buddha, 12th Century
Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Max Loehr, 1964.2

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Votive Plaque (Sâccha) 11th C Burma, Pagan  

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Object-Votive Plaque (Sâccha)
Title-Depicting Buddha in Bhumisparsa Mudra
Date-11th century, reign of King Aniruddha
Techniques-Terracotta, deeply impressed from an intaglio mould
Place-Pagan, Burma
Dimensions-13.3 x 9.5 x 0.9 cm (5 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 3/8 in.)

Current Location- Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Louis Sidney Thierry Memorial Fund, 1981.34
Museum number- 1981.34


This clay votive tablet, reportedly found at Pegu, Burma (now Myanmar), depicts the Buddha seated beneath the tower of the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya, in eastern India. He is seated in the Bhumisparsa Mudra pose with his right hand in the gesture of touching or witnessing the earth (bhumisparsa mudra), the gesture which more than any other represents the moment of his enlightenment.

He is flanked by seated figures of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara on the left and right. The branches of the Bodhi tree, under which the Buddha achieved enlightenment, branch out from the central niche. In the upper part of the tablet are a number of small votive stupas (the funeral mound which housed the Buddha's relics and which became the symbol of his transcendental form and the primary Buddhist momument). At the bottom is the two lines of a Buddhist prayer in the devanagari script. Clay votive tablets of the Buddha, quotes from Buddhist texts, and divine figures represent a significant element of the archaeological record of early Buddhist sites in Pagan period.
I am not ready to describe the script and remain uncertain for the time being.

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