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12th Century Khmer Angkor Wat Period Bronze Lakshmi browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Southeast Asian:Sculpture: Pre 1492: item # 897638 Please refer to our stock # 1114 when inquiring.
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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 consort is standing holding Vishnu’s attributes of a conch and a chakra in her raised hands, and in her front right possibly a miniature mace and in the left a lotus, the blossom now missing. Her face is radiant and attractive, with full deeply smiling lips, large rimmed open eyes below eyebrows that form one continuous ridge across the forehead. Lakshmi’s tall, powerful frame and regal stance are typical of Angkor Wat styled sculpture. Age: First half of the 12th Century. Height: On base 21cm, off base 16.5 cm.
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