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Buddha Triad

KOREA; Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE–668), dated 563;Commissioned by Devotee Zhao; Gilt bronze; H: 17.5 cm;Gansong Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
The Buddha stands on a triple-layer inverted lotus pedestal. His monastic robes ripple down and out as he makes the abhaya (fearlessness) and varada (wish-granting) mudras. His body and head are surrounded by a radiating aureole and a nimbus with foliated outer rims. On each side, an attendant Bodhisattva stands on a lotus pedestal and the triad is enclosed by a flame-patterned mandorla. On the reverse side is an inscription which dates the work to 563. It was listed as National Treasure No. 72 in 1962.

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