Cambodian Bronze Buddha Head: Gilt, Based

Eyes lowered, a slight smile, and a flame rising from the crown.

This Buddha head comes from Cambodia and dates to the 20th century. It is bronze with a gilt finish. Buddha images were made for temples and shrines in Cambodia as a focus of devotion and a way to earn merit, and the raised crown and tight curls are marks of an enlightened being. Gilding gives way to darker metal across the brow and cheeks, and a pointed flame finial tops the head. It sits on a plain dark block. Twenty-one and a half inches high.

The calm does not depend on the rest of the figure.