an important pre angkor, chaya style, sandstone head of probably siva

7TH/9TH CENTURY

细节

an important pre angkor, chaya style, sandstone head of probably siva
7th/9th century
His well modelled face with arched eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, broad nose, open mouth showing teeth, slightly puffy cheeks, elongated earlobes, one pierced, the other broken, a plain tiara with three floralised roundels in the centre and at both sides, a double string securing his jatamakuta, with a pair of ribbons falling downwards, traces of red and black pigments
30 cm high, mounted

来源

Collected in the early 1950's

拍品专文

Stone sculptures originating from Peninsular Thailand before the Angkor period are extremely rare. Two other examples can be found in well-known publications by R. Goepper (ed.). The Sacred Image, Cologne 1979, pp. 88-89 and by J. Boisselier, La sculpture en Thailande, Fribourg, 2nd. edition 1987, pl. 66. All three heads show the same characteristics of Indian, Post-Gupta influences. They wear also a similar tiara carved with three floralised roundels in the centre and at both sides.