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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 344

A GREY SANDSTONE FIGURE OF SHIVA , KHMER, BAPH UON STYLE, CIRCA 11TH CENTUR Y
Estimate: 150,000 - 200,000 USD

PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION
A GREY SANDSTONE FIGURE OF SHIVA
KHMER, BAPHUON STYLE, CIRCA 11TH CENTURY

Height 37 ¼ in. (94.6 cm.)

standing on a square pedestal, wearing a short sampot with finely striated vertical pleats, plain belt passing around his hips and
securing a stylized dagger and overlapping pocket-fold, the drawstring looped beneath his navel, his rounded face with bow-
shaped mouth, incised mustache, triangular nose, small almond-shaped eyes, arched eyebrows in relief, and third eye indicated
vertically on his forehead, his hair tightly matted in spiral braids arranged vertically, the chignon secured at the base with a strand
of large ovoid jewels

Provenance
Dr. Gert-Rudolf Flick Collection, Switzerland (b. 1943)
Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1981
Nathan Halpern Collection
Sotheby's New York, March 28, 1996, lot 135
Spink & Son, Ltd, London
Christie's New York, March 20, 2009, lot 1425

Catalogue Note

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