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Three stoneware jars
Khmer, 11th/12th century
Two pedestal jars with mottled brown glaze, one with a collar of applied
flower roundels, together with a bottle with sooty glaze.
13 3/8 in. (34 cm), the highest
$500 - 800

The pedestal jar is a classic Khmer shape. Its balanced proportions
correlate to the quality of workmanship seen in Khmer architecture.
Perhaps by way of Indonesia, its design is inspired by the Indian purna
kalasa - the auspicious ‘vase of plenty’. For further discussion see D.
Richards, South-East Asian Ceramics, New York, 1995, p. 51. For a closely
related example with similar applied flower motif see ibid., fig. 127, p.
166, for another without, see Honda, et al., The Beauty of Fired Clay,
Oxford, 1997, no. 32, p. 73.

Provenance:
Private Pittsburgh Collection, documented to 17 November 1972

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A copper alloy bust of Naga-enthroned Buddha
Cambodia, Angkor Wat period, 11th/12th century
Of classic form, his serene expression with broad lips surmounted by
a diadem and conical ushnisha and surrounded by the canopy of the
naga’s heads.
6 1/2 in. (16.4 cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000

Compare to a similar complete example in Bunker and Latchford, Khmer
Bronzes, Chicago, 2011, fig. 8.45, p. 338.

Provenance: 227
Private Pittsburgh Collection

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