Page 52 - Christie's Inidian and HImalayan Works of Art, March 2019

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF BARONESS EVA BESSENYEY
(LOTS 601-640 AND LOTS 719-724)

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A SANDSTONE STELE OF GANESHA
VIETNAM, LATE CHAM PERIOD, 15TH CENTURY
13¡ in. (34 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Manheim
Christie’s New York, 16 September 2008, lot 582
Christie’s New York, 13 September 2011, lot 422
The present sculpture of Ganesha exemplifes the assimilation
of Hindu ideology and artistic representation into the Cham
culture, which was established in present-day Vietnam from as
early as the second century AD. Despite constant warfare with
their neighbors, particularly the Khmer Empire to the west, the
Cham fourished, building numerous monuments and temples
devoted to their adopted Hindu faith.

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639
A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA MUCHALINDA
THAILAND, LOPBURI PERIOD, 13TH CENTURY
7¬ in. (19.4 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Switzerland, 1960s, by repute
Christie’s New York, 20 March 2009, lot 1433
Shaded by a seven-headed serpent rising above his head to
form a hood and coiled below him to provide support, Buddha
Muchalinda sits protected by the weather. The present example
exhibits a strong Khmer infuence, as is common for sculptures
of the mid-Lopburi period: the proportions of the body, and
the treatment of the crown and hair all closely follow the
contemporaneous Bayon style of Khmer sculpture.

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