Details: An attractive and dynamic Khmer image of the Vajrayana Tantric deity Vajrasattva form the 11th century. Seated in vajrasana, his right hand in front of his breast holding a vajra, his left hand resting on his hip with a lily draped between his long petal like fingers. He is wearing an unusually long sampot, simple armlets, bracelets, necklace, heavy ornate earrings and a tall decorated conical headdress. Vajrasattva’s face is stern, with almond shaped eyes, broad nose, full lips below ...click for details
Details: A rare and interesting example of transitional post Pagan seated Buddha from 14th century Burma. Buddha is seated in vajrasana on a low tiered throne, his right hand in Bhumisparsa mudra and his left held in Dhyana mudra. He is wearing a long transparent monk’s robe with the right shoulder bare, his face focused in deep meditation. Buddha’s hair is tightly curled covering his domed usnisha which is surmounted by his small radiant ketumala. ...click for details
Details: An attractive and shapely example of an 11th century Khmer bronze image of either Uma or Lakshmi. This female deity is clothed in a sampot that flares out slightly at the bottom hem and is arranged in the typical Baphuon style with its long front panel ending in a fishtail, dipping quite low at the front below the navel and held in place by a plain belt with hanging pendants. Her face is pretty, with arched eyebrows, wide almond shaped eyes, and a full sensual mouth. She has a wonderful ...click for details
Details: An extremely unusual early example of a Khmer Buddha or regal Buddhist adorant from around the 9th century. He is seated in dhyanasana with his hands placed together in front of his powerful chest in adoration. His face is broad with full lips and large eyes beneath arched brows, his hair covered beneath a detailed floral crown, seated on a single tier lotus throne similar to thrones of contemporary Srivijaya, Dvaravati and Pala pieces. Crowns such as he is wearing were worn by kings a ...click for details
Details: A rare and very attractive bronze example of a Srivijaya image of the Hindu deity Shiva. This fleshy well proportioned Shiva is standing in Samabhanga with three hands holding attributes of a water gourd, a rosary, and a hand drum with his forth hand held in Abhaya Mudra, which combined with the hand drum make this image very unusual. However, the hand drum is associated with the Bhairava form of Shiva which we know from surviving images was worshipped across much of maritime South East ...click for details
Details: A rare and attractive example of a finely cast Khmer Bayon period image of a bearded Shiva. This powerful looking Shiva is standing straight legged on a small square base adorned with a diadem, a pectoral, earrings, armbands, bracelets, anklets, and an ornate lavish belt arranged around a short sampot can kpin with a small butterfly bow on the back, the traditional garb of a Khmer male aristocrat. His face is well modeled with an attractive beard that helps identify him as Shiva along w ...click for details
Details: A rare and attractive example of an 8th to 9th century Dvaravati bronze standing Buddha. It is clear the caster of this early image did well to impart such a state of peaceful transcendence in a small bronze, not an easy task for artisans who were more comfortable working in stone rather than bronze. Buddha’s face is classically Mon showing localized ideals of beauty; a slightly exaggerated broad square face, wide nose, full thick lips, heavy lidded elongated eyes, and clearly defined ...click for details
Details: A charming rare example of a bronze standing Maitreya from the kingdom of Srivijaya. The Bodhisattva is standing with a smiling tranquil face, holding both his attributes of a water phial in his left hand and a sting of Buddhist prayer beads in his right hand. His hair is combed upwards into a tall chingon with the image of a stupa on the front indentifying him as the Bodhisattva Maitreya. He is wearing an ankle length sampot with many pleats and a fish tail flap to the left at his wai ...click for details
Details: A charming example of an early Eastern Javanese image of Vairocana the foremost of the five transcendent Dhyani Buddhas and the most revered of the cosmic Buddhas in early Javanese Buddhist society. Vairocana is sitting in the adamantine vajraparyanka attitude and makes the wisdom fist bodhyagrimudra. His robe is worn in the usual manner, leaving his right shoulder bare. The slimness of the torso, a feature of Eastern Javanese work, is accentuated by his exceptionally tall cranial prot ...click for details
Details: A classically Angkor Wat styled early 12th century example of Vishnu’s consort Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth and the embodiment of beauty, grace and charm. She wears a diadem with a conical chignon cover, earrings and a jeweled belt with pendants hidden beneath the drapery fold in front but visible on the back. She is clothed in a pleated Sampot with a down turned edge at the waist, the lower edge of the central pleat opens into an Angkor Wat styled fishtail at front. The consor ...click for details
