Museum Acquired Important Cambodian (Khmer) Sandstone Torso, 11th Century

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Seller: antiqueauctionsinc ✉️ (207) 100%, Location: Libertyville, Illinois, US, Ships to: US, Item: 155472945914 Museum Acquired Important Cambodian (Khmer) Sandstone Torso, 11th Century. Museum Acquired Very Rare and Important Torso of Female Deity Sandstone Khmer, Angkor Period, Baphuon style c. 11th Century
Massive and early, Cambodian (Khmer) carved sandstone of an elegant female sculpture; of a torso:
A female figure of a goddess,  standing in  samapada , her young unadorned body with small, high breasts and her belly naturalistically and beautifully rounded, wearing a long, pleated  sarong  tied at the front with a curled end at the top sweeping to the left, the long central fold of fabric, incised with designs indicating a patterned or embroidered fabric adorned with pearls and tassles, elegantly culminating in a 'fishtail' shape at the hem, held together at the hips with a patterned belt fastened at the front with a knot, the sculpture finished at the back, the remains of the ankle showing a support. Appraised at $45,000; selling at a fraction of acquisition costs from the estate of a collector who passed.  Best offers will be presented to the Estate. Height: 16 inches, Width: 6 3/4 inches (with base)

Condition: fragmentary, missing arms, head and feet; crack running around upper torso and lower back of garment
on pedestal wood stand Provenance: Estate of a Prominent Antiquities Collector. Museum Deaccession The piece exemplifies the style of Baphuon  female figures with the frontal stance, the ovoid skirt wide at the hips and narrowing around the knees, the sarong  positioned high at the back and curving down to below the navel and the elegant central pleat. According to Boisselier the highly decorative style of Banteay Srei inspired the development of Baphuon period sculpture, a manner which became more embellished with decorative elements as it continued into and reached a zenith during the Angkor Wat period a century later, (see Helen Ibbitson Jessup and Thierry Zephir, ed.; Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory , Washington 1997, p. 255). The modeling of the torso, the curled end of the sarong above the belt and a long central fold certainly recalls Banteay Srei sculpture (see Emma C. Bunker, and Douglas Latchford; Adoration and Glory; The Golden Age of Khmer Art , Chicago, 2004, p. 175, fig. 8.6.). The decorative nature and style of the central pleat on the sarong  can be compared to a 12th century example published P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection , Thames and Hudson, 1997, p. 195, cat. 255.  However all other elements are characteristic of the Baphuon style.
  • Region of Origin: Southeast Asia

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