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STATUE D’UMA EN GRES POLI
CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE BAPHUON,
XIEME SIECLE

Uma est représentée debout en samabangha sur
une base rectangulaire, le torse nu. Elle est vêtue
d’un sampot plissé retenu par une ceinture simple et
un nœud en forme de queue de poisson. Son visage
esquisse un sourire énigmatique.
Hauteur : 66 cm. (26 in.), socle

€30,000-40,000 $33,000-44,000
£27,000-36,000

PROVENANCE:

With Doris Wiener Gallery, New York,
November 1974.
Private Italian collection.

A FINE POLISHED SANDSTONE FIGURE OF UMA

CAMBODIA, KHMER, BAPHUON PERIOD,
11TH CENTURY

柬埔寨 高棉帝國 巴本寺時期 十一世紀
砂岩烏瑪立像
來源：
於1974年11月購自紐約古董商Doris Wiener Gallery
意大利私人收藏

The Baphuon period is generally considered the

highpoint of Khmer art. Figures of gods from this
period are handsome and well-built, and those of
goddesses are sensual and graceful. This fne fgure
is probably Uma, the wife of Shiva. Her elegant,
naturalistic appeal embodies the ideal of feminine
beauty with her narrow shoulders, slender waist, and
small but frm breasts. The unknown artist sculpted
this sacred image in total command of form and line
while emphasising the tactile quality of the polished
surface. It is sensitively set-of against the refned
treatment of the wrapping and tying of her sampot,
secured with a simple plain belt.

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