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A lARge ANdesITe bAsIN WITh FOuR deITIes,
INdONesIA, ceNTRAl JAVA, 9Th ceNTuRy
Two male and two female standing deities support a lotus-shaped
water basin. The figures wear elaborate crowns and jewelry, the
goddesses are bare-breasted.

Provenance: Baron Alex Torri, Italy. An Italian private collector,
acquired from the above between 1998-2002.
condition: Extensive weathering, wear and ersoion, some losses.
Overall fully consistent with the age and size of this statue.

Weight: 99 kg
Dimensions: Height 73.5 cm
The present statue is almost certainly from Borobudur or a related temple
site, such as Sewu or Ngawen in Central Java. Built by the Shailendra
dynasty around 825 CE, Borobudur is one of the greatest Buddhist
monuments of all time, having one of the largest and most complete
ensembles of Buddhist narrative relief panels in the world. Structured as a
mandala of stacked platforms representing the three planes of existence
in Mahayana cosmology (the world of desire, the world of forms, and the
world of formlessness), Borobodur invites pilgrims circumambulating its
didactic panels and sculpture to shuck the trappings of their perceived
reality and realize their true inherent formlessness.
estimate euR 8.000,-
Starting price EUr 4.000,-

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