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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
歐洲私人珍藏
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RARE TORSE FEMININ EN GRES
CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE BAPHUON, XIEME SIECLE
Elle est représentée debout, vêtue d’un samabhanga. Son torse est
nu, sa poitrine joliment modelée. Son cou est rehaussé de trois ‘lignes
de beauté’. Elle porte un sampot long au plissé vertical maintenu à la
taille par une ceinture.
Hauteur: 56 cm. (22 in.), socle
€40,000-60,000 $47,000-70,000
£36,000-53,000
PROVENANCE
With Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes, Paris, 21 November 1966.
A FINE SANDSTONE TORSO OF A FEMALE FIGURE
CAMBODIA, KHMER, BAPHUON PERIOD, 11TH CENTURY
柬埔寨 高棉帝國 巴普昂寺風格 十一世紀 砂岩女神像
來源：歐洲私人珍藏，於1966年11月21日購自巴黎古董商
Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes

The Baphuon period is generally considered the highpoint of
Khmer art. One could say that the materialized goddesses are sensual
and graceful. This fne torso, probably of Uma the wife of Shiva, is
indeed elegant, naturalistic in appeal and seems to embody the ideal
of female beauty with her narrow shoulders, slender waist, and small
but frm breasts. The unnamed artist sculpted this sacred image
with a total command of form and lines while providing the body
the tactile quality of youthfulness. It is ingeniously set against the
realistic treatment of the wrapping and tying of her sampot secured
by a contrasting simple belt.

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