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Lot 241 - Auction 93

A STONE SCULPTURE OF A FEMALE DEITYKhmer, Angkor Vat style, 12th century

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A STONE SCULPTURE OF A FEMALE DEITY
Khmer, Angkor Vat style, 12th century

The standing divinity wearing an elegantly draped sampot skirt with a classic fishtail lower end, a gracefully modeled naked torso, a showy necklace around the neck.



45 cm high

Provenance: Italian private collection; formerly a Swiss collection, purchased at Spink & Son. Ltd., London, 6 October 1975.


For a sculpture in this style, a classic of the Khmer civilization of the 12th century, depicting a devata (a Hindu deity), complete with head, of similar size and preserved in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, see E.C. Bunker-D. Latchford, Adoration and Glory. The Golden Age of Khmer Art, Chicago 2004, pp. 248-249, n. 84.

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