CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE BAPHUON, XIEME SIECLE

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STATUE D'UMA EN GRES GRIS POLI
CAMBODGE, KHMER, EPOQUE BAPHUON, XIEME SIECLE
The deity is standing in samabhanga. She is wearing a plain sampot drawn high at her hips and secured by a plain belt. A flange is falling down between her legs. Her bare chest is sculpted with well-modeled breasts. Her face displays an enigmatic smile with almond shaped eyes below rigid eyebrows.
32 in. (81 cm.) high, stand

Provenance

With Jean-Claude de Sillac, Paris, 24 June 1970.

Further details

A FINE POLISHED GREY SANDSTONE FIGURE OF UMA
CAMBODIA, KHMER, BAPHUON PERIOD, 11TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

This fine and youthful figure, probably of Uma, is deprived of any decoration. Even her sampot is carved without the usual vertically striated folds. It seems that the carver wanted to draw the worshippers' attention to her religious role and not other elaborate details. Her face shows the well-known enigmatic gaze enhanced by her full and seductive lips.

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