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10th Century Khmer Koh Ker Style Bronze Figure of Shiva browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives: Pre AD 1000: item # 870072 Please refer to our stock # 1104 when inquiring.
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Details: A superb quality Khmer Koh Ker styled figure of Shiva from the 10th century. This wonderfully proportioned Shiva is standing tall holding his four attributes on top of a square base that at one time could possibly have been inserted into a Yoni. He is clothed in a sampot draped in a can kpin with a small fold falling from the upper border, a scalloped pocket on the left thigh and a double fishtail shaped pendant in front that is formed by the extremities of the scarf, all common in Koh Ker sculpture. His face carries an expression of authority expressed with fierce eyes beneath broad bow like eyebrows, an indic hooked nose, full pouting lips, a moustache and the faint outline of a regal beard. He is adorned with a diadem encircling a tall tired chignon cover and typically Khmer pendulous earrings. A good example of the well executed bronze images the Koh Ker style is renowned for. Koh Ker images seem to radiate an uncanny spiritual aura that the more rigid and formulated pieces of the later Angkor Wat period fail to convey. Age: 10th Century. Height: On base 19.5 cm, off base 16 cm. Provenance: The late Dr. Henry Ginsburg, curator of the South East Asian collections at both the British Museum and the British Library. He was a renowned expert in the field of Thai, Laos and Cambodian manuscripts and paintings. Previously to Dr. Ginsburg, this piece was in the Sammy Eilenberg collection. |
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