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Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture (2)

A fine Khmer stone bust fragment of 'Balarama' Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture: Pre 1492 item# 1178465 (stock# K108975)
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This ancient example of Khmer Hindu figurative carving has a wonderfully soft, subtle roundness after eight hundred or so years. The face of the male deity, that is, "Balarama", is very calm and meditative. He is Krishna's older brother, and he is carrying a hoe because he is known as the 'plowman'. Apparently missing the upper right arm since antiquity, the bust fragment is in otherwise very good condition and retains its details very nicely. It appears the nose was damage ...click for details

A Dayak female 'Hampatong' figure Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture: Pre 1920 item# 1114266 (stock# D54992)
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The slender female image carved in a simple and pure manner, somewhat crude, but very expressive. She stands wide-eyed and naked with right hand by the awkwardly placed breasts, and left hand near her exaggerated genitalia. The wood is heavy and dense (ironwood), very old and weathered with a fine, grayed patina showing patches of lichen moss across the deep crevices caused from decades of rain erosion. Hampatong figures were placed near communal entrances in hopes of driving away malevolent for ...click for details

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