KHMER, ANGKOR PERIOD, PRE RUP STYLE, SECOND HALF 10TH CENTURY

细节

A rare stone figure of Ganesha
Khmer, Angkor Period, Pre Rup style, second half 10th century
Finely carved wearing a pleated dhoti with fishtail hem tied around his ample belly, his raised arm holding a conch, his face with realistically modeled forehead and the hair drawn into a chignon and secured with a foliate crown tied in the back, the reverse of the head half with braided hair
29 7/8 in. (76 cm.) high

来源

Private English Collection, before 1970

拍品专文

This is a very unusual and rare depiction of Ganesha; compare with a Pre-Angkor example at the National Museum Phnom Penh, equally holding a conch, see W. Lobo and H. Jessup, Angkor, Gottliches Erbe Kambodschas, 2007 cat. no. 23, p. 72.