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SECOND QUARTER OF THE 10TH CENTURY
Details
A Khmer, Koh Ker style, sandstone fragment of Ganesha
second quarter of the 10th century
The lower section missing, his right hand holding ball while the left carries the broken tusk, wearing vertical striated sampot kept together by a belt, pot-bellied, his head with curling trunk, pair of eyes, tusks, ears and simple tiara securing his hairdress
19 cm (7 1/2 in) high, mounted
second quarter of the 10th century
The lower section missing, his right hand holding ball while the left carries the broken tusk, wearing vertical striated sampot kept together by a belt, pot-bellied, his head with curling trunk, pair of eyes, tusks, ears and simple tiara securing his hairdress
19 cm (7 1/2 in) high, mounted
Provenance
Acquired in the early 1920's and thence by descent
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