A Stone Figure of Uma

KHMER, BAPHUON PERIOD, 11TH CENTURY

Details

A Stone Figure of Uma
Khmer, Baphuon Period, 11th Century
Sensitively carved and superbly modeled, wearing a sarong wrapped around her hips and falling in elegant pleats finely incised in parallel lines, draped down the center to form a fishtail and secured with a beaded belt tied with a knot in front, her face with a serene expression with gently arched brows and full bow-shaped lips, her hair finely matted and tied back with a strand of pearls and domed topknot surmounted by a floret
40¼ in. (102.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Spink & Son, 1986

Literature

M. Warner, "Antiques: Gods and Goddesses, Sculpted Deities from the Ancient World", Architectural Digest, October 1986, p. 204, illus.

Lot Essay

Compare two related stone figures of a female deity, one in the National Museum, Phnom Penh, in M. Girard-Geslan et. al., Art of Southeast Asia, 1998, fig. 501; the other in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see M. Lerner and S. Kossak, "The Arts of South and Southeast Asia," The Metropolitan of Art Bulletin, vol. LI, no. 4, 1994, fig. 88, p. 83. While the sarongs are similarly executed, the belts vary.

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