AN EAST JAVANESE, MAJAPAHIT STYLE, BRONZE PART OF AN OIL-LAMP, MOULDED AS AN ASCETIC FIGURE, standing with both hands raised, formerly holding the oil-container, naked except for a loin-cloth covering his erected phallus, meditation band, his face with angry expression, bushy eyebrows, bulging eyes, large ears with circular earrings, his hair terminating in a long pig-tail reaching almost to the ground, partly moulded with flowerheads, light green patina, 15th/16th Century

AN EAST JAVANESE, MAJAPAHIT STYLE, BRONZE PART OF AN OIL-LAMP, MOULDED AS AN ASCETIC FIGURE, standing with both hands raised, formerly holding the oil-container, naked except for a loin-cloth covering his erected phallus, meditation band, his face with angry expression, bushy eyebrows, bulging eyes, large ears with circular earrings, his hair terminating in a long pig-tail reaching almost to the ground, partly moulded with flowerheads, light green patina, 15th/16th Century

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The uplifted hands could have supported an oil-basin. This ascetic figure conforms to a popular concept of asceticism such as prevailed in the East Javanese period. Young, beardless and virile (which last quality can be deduced from the erected phallus), the figure radiates fiery energy and mystic powers rather than renunciation. Such a figure is quite likely meant to represent a follower of Siva, the Lord of the ascetics, and at the same time the Lord of Creation and Bestower of Fertility, as well as the God of Fire and Light.

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