RARE ORNEMENT DE PALANQUIN EN BRONZE DORE

NORD-EST DE LA THAILANDE, STYLE D'ANGKOR VAT, XIIEME SIECLE

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RARE ORNEMENT DE PALANQUIN EN BRONZE DORE
NORD-EST DE LA THAILANDE, STYLE D'ANGKOR VAT, XIIEME SIECLE
De forme cambrée, il est composé du corps couvert d'écailles du naga surmonté de quatre têtes de serpent entourant le Garuda. Ce dernier est figuré debout, ses deux mains en abhayamudra, paré de bijoux, sa tête d'oiseau entourée de plumes, sa queue en panache au revers.
Hauteur: 60 cm. (23 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Private collection, Germany, acquired in the early 1980s

Literature

R. Goepper (ed.), Entdeckungen: Skulpturen der Khmer und Thai, Ernst Klett Verlage GmbH, Stuttgart 1989, p.108.

Exhibited

Entdeckungen: Skulpturen der Khmer und Thai, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst der Stadt Köln, 15 April-9 July 1989.

Further details

A FINE GILT-BRONZE FINIAL CAST WITH GARUDA
NORTHEAST THAILAND, ANGKOR VAT STYLE, 12TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

This superbly cast finial, together with its counterpart, both published in the German Khmer exhibition catalogue Entdeckungen on page 109, once served as the finials of a palanquin. Its long shaft is open at the end to fit over a wooden rod. The presented finial with extremely complex design suggests a manufacture in the northeast of Thailand during the late 12th century, well known for these elaborate examples. The Khmer people dominated this region for centuries, with the city of Phimai as its centre, and their artistic productions are of a high level and can positively be compared with examples of the heartland of the Khmer empire, namely the Angkor area.

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