Details: An extremely rare silver Khmer alms bowl with chased inscriptions on both sides. This is a well proportioned silver bowl that might have been formed in its day by hammering a silver slug heated over a charcoal fire into a disc that would then be hammered over a matrix to achieve the simple rounded bowl shape.
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Details: A rare example of 8th Century Sri Lankan Gilt Bronze Buddha in the Anuradhapura style. Sakyamuni is seated in virasana with both hands in dhyanamudra and is wearing a diaphanous cloak. He has a plump face holding a meditative expression with arched eyebrows, elongated earlobes and tightly curled hair. The Buddha has a strong and powerful looking body with delicately cast hands and feet.
Details: A handsome and classically Khmer example of a Baphuon style kneeling Deva from a Tantric Mandala, probably centered on Chandra. This attractive bronze Deva is shown kneeling with on one knee with the other raised. His right hand is holding a lily and his left is in the boon giving gesture incised with a geometric design. The figure is clothed in a low cut pleated sampot can kpin that dips below the navel with graceful folds below the belt, and the piece that folds between the legs for ...click for details
Details: A very cute and tactile example of a 2nd to 3rd century green schist reliquary casket from Gandhara. The spherical casket has two delicately incised concentric lines on both the top and bottom typical of Gandharan reliquaries and is topped by a pistil shaped knob. The casket contains three relics, a bronze coin and two glass items, one of which shows the ancient auspicious symbol of the swastika.
Details: A charming example of a 19th century Mandalay seated alabaster lacquered Buddha in royal attire. Buddha is seated in vajrasana on an elaborately decorated low stepped base, his right hand in bhumisparsha mudra while the left hand rests on his lap in dhyana mudra. His face is happy and contented with his eyes trancelike expressing the depth of his meditation. He is wearing the lavish attire of a Burmese king over his well proportioned frame and has a high usnisha covered in gilt. ...click for details
Details: An attractive and finely carved Thai seal from the Rattnakosin period. The seal is carved in the shape of a traditional Thai chedi (stupa), which was usual of most governmental seals of the time. The stamp itself is of a peacock surrounded by flames, a symbol in use by the Rattanakosin era authorities, possibly corresponding to a regiment within a branch of the army.
Details: An excellent example of a Gandhara sandstone head of a Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya. His face carved with a serene expression, urna, heavy lidded eyes and a smiling mouth. He is wearing an elaborate headdress with floral rosettes woven in between his many beautifully carved curls.
Details: A rare and attractive 11th century Chola period bronze image of the seated Buddha from Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. The Buddha is sitting in the half lotus posture (Satvaparyankasana), his right leg over his left upon an elaborate multi tiered throne supporting an ornate double lotus pedestal reminiscent of 9th to 10th century Pala pieces. His hands are placed in his lap in the attitude of meditation (Samadhimudra or Dhyanamudra). His monastic garments are arranged so as to leave the righ ...click for details
Details: A rare and very attractive 18th century wooden polychrome image of Amitayus from Tibet. Amitayus , the Buddha of infinite life, is represented here in his traditional iconography. He sits deep in contemplation, in the diamond posture, upon a lotus throne, with both hands flat in the contemplation gesture, holding a vase containing the “Elixir of Life” (water, saffron, and nectar pills) with a stylized “three of life” on top of it. ...click for details
Details: A decorative and very pretty example of a Picchvai of Krishna as Sri Nathji from Rajasthan, India. Sri Nathji is wearing some ornate beaded necklaces and a lotus garland over his grey and green Chakdarwagha. Below the Sanskrit text, upon his head is a large peacock feather headdress and he is holding the lakut (cow herder's stick) and a lotus in his right hand. The image is backed by a patterned grey background, with the golden Pandan box, betel leaves and a covered pitcher of h ...click for details
