Look slowly.
Read the record.
Two documented museum comparisons. Each image has its own attribution and history.
These works illustrate Buddhist gesture and the importance of an object-specific catalogue record. Neither is presented as Phra Chiang Rung. Shared iconography does not establish a shared place or date of manufacture.
View image Seated Buddha
in Māravijaya
Sukhothai · Second half of the 14th century
- Material
- Leaded bronze
- Collection
- Walters Art Museum
- Accession
- 54.2520
Gift of the Breezewood Foundation, 1977. Museum attribution, as recorded in its collection catalogue.[5]
Object evidence & image record
- Editorial class
- Scholarly comparison; museum-attributed object. Not independently authenticated by City of Dawn.
- Attribution & evidence
- Sukhothai, Second half of the 14th century; Leaded bronze. Source: museum catalogue, accession 54.2520. No independent materials test or examination performed here.
- Provenance record
- The museum lists Luang Ban, followed by Alexander B. Griswold on 17 April 1949; presented to the Breezewood Foundation in 1964 and given to the museum in 1977. This is a summary of the published record, not a verified unbroken history to manufacture.
- Image source & rights
- Walters Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP. See the linked image credit for the source file and license.
- Review
- 9 November 2026. Institutional attribution and cited records may change. This entry is not a sale listing or an endorsement.
Photo: Walters Art Museum · CC BY-SA 3.0.
Resized and converted to WebP. Source & full credit.
View image Seated Buddha
in Māravijaya
Lan Na · 18th–19th century
- Material
- Leaded arsenical bronze
- Collection
- Walters Art Museum
- Accession
- 54.2742
Bequest of A. B. Griswold, 1992. Museum attribution, as recorded in its collection catalogue.[6]
Object evidence & image record
- Editorial class
- Scholarly comparison; museum-attributed object. Not independently authenticated by City of Dawn.
- Attribution & evidence
- Lan Na, 18th–19th century; Leaded arsenical bronze. Source: museum catalogue, accession 54.2742. No independent materials test or examination performed here.
- Provenance record
- The museum lists purchase from Thong Lo, Bangkok, by Alexander B. Griswold on 28 January 1951; presented to the Breezewood Foundation in 1965 and bequeathed to the museum in 1992. This is a summary of the published record, not a verified unbroken history to manufacture.
- Image source & rights
- Walters Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP. See the linked image credit for the source file and license.
- Review
- 9 November 2026. Institutional attribution and cited records may change. This entry is not a sale listing or an endorsement.
Photo: Walters Art Museum · CC BY-SA 3.0.
Resized and converted to WebP. Source & full credit.
This first edition does not hold a documented collection of Chiang Rung antiquities. The gallery uses licensed museum comparisons with transparent labels. The gold and monochrome emblems are brand artwork; see the original identity images.