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Vishnu Sculpture - Antique Phnom Da Style Mounted Sandstone Vishnu Statue - 73cm/29"
Measurements - Height 73cm/29"
An antique early 7th century Phnom Da style, brown sandstone, Vishnu sculpture, the Hindu deity of creation. The divine Hindu preserver and protector of human life, a role that provided natural analogies with earthly kingship for the Khmer.This muscular image of Vishnu is depicted standing samabhanga, straight-legged, on a rectangular base. The image is carved in the round with the back as carefully carved as the front. The image wears a high miter and a long clinging sampot knotted at the waist that reveals his powerful, muscular body above.
Vishnu is shown with remnants of his four arms, that would have held his special attributes.Lush lips, almond shaped eyes and an aquiline nose define his face. Distended earlobes may once have been adorned with real earrings.The Vishnu torso has a slender waist, broad hips and shoulders, not as muscular as earlier sixth century Khmer Vishnu images, but more refined and graceful.
The present image lacks the rows of hair showing from beneath the miter in back on earlier Vishnu heads.
This is a particular temporal feature shared by late-seventh-century images in the National Museum in Phnom Penh that wear the earlier long sampot and also do not have hair projecting from under the miter, for example the Vishnu from Ba Sre, Angkor Borei, Takeo.The Vishnu torso is mounted on a wood base (later).Scholarly Reference:
New York Metropolitan Museum Collection - Reference: 77664
Christie's Auction House - Sale 5080 (November 2003) - COLLECTION DE MR GEORGES HALPHEN
Radcliffe Collection, Published Dofflemyer, 1999
Provenance: Ex- private London Collection. All items are guaranteed to be as described. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all purchases upon request.
To aid with safe shipping your Vishnu will be wood crated before shipping. There is no additional cost for this packing, crating and shipping service.
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