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The Irving Collection

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A SANDSTONE FIGURE OF UMA
KHMER, ANGKOR WAT PERIOD,
12TH CENTURY
20 in. (50.8 cm) high

$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
William H. Wolff Inc., New York, 22 May 1986.
Irving Collection no. 1806.
The standing figure of Uma is modelled wearing a
vertically-striated sampot secured by a belt carved
in relief with foliate decoration and pendent floral
motifs. A large textile panel is draped over the belt
while a fishtail-shaped section falls down on the
rim of her garment. Her face carries an expression
with a slight smile, ridged eyebrows, broad nose,
pouting lips, and elongated earlobes. She wears a
tiara carved with floral motifs in front of a conical-
shaped chignon.

(another view)
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