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RARE STATUE DE BRAHMA EN GRES
CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE PRE
RUP, FIN XEME SIECLE

La divinité à quatre bras est représentée
debout en samabhanga, vêtue d’un sampot
plissé tenu par une ceinture. Ses quatre
visages empreints de sérénité esquissent
un sourire énigmatique, chacun portant une
barbe et une moustache. Ses cheveux sont
coifés en chignon.
Hauteur : 59 cm. (11Ω in.), socle

€20,000-30,000 $22,000-33,000
£18,000-27,000

PROVENANCE:

Property from an important European
collection, acquired by the family of the
present owner circa 1960s, and thence by
descent.

A RARE SANDSTONE FIGURE OF BRAHMA

CAMBODIA, KHMER, PRE RUP PERIOD,
LATE 10TH CENTURY

柬埔寨 高棉帝國 比粒寺時期 十世
紀末 砂岩梵天立像
來源：
歐洲重要系列珍藏 ，由藏家家族於
1960年代購入，家族傳承

B rahma is sculpted here with four faces

and four arms as in the Indian tradition. His
four mouths are said to have each issued
one of the holy Veda texts. In Khmer art,
the Hindu god Brahma is rarely represented
freestanding like the current one. A specifc
iconographic feature of Brahma in Khmer art
is the ring of large pearls encircling his four
chignons. This representation with a slightly
aquiline nose on each face, fnely detailed
moustache, trimmed beard and the typical
sampot places this rare Brahma fgure in the
Pre Rup period or at the very beginning of the
Koh Ker period.

The French Khmer art expert Jean Boisselier
(1912-1996), member of the French School
of the Far East (Ecole française d’Extrême-
Orient), wrote an essay on this piece, ‘Brahma
Debout, Diademé‘, dated 22 July 1982.

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