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1. Khmer Baphuon Style Bronze Deity Cambodia 11th c. Copper alloy 16 inches |
This slender figure with both arms in foreward position, in the right hand holding a mace and in the left hand a lotus bead. his hair is pulled up into a chignon that is held in place by a simple juweled chain. His young face has soft expressions and almost seductive, with a large smiling mouth and defined line to the upper lip. The figure is wearing a sampot Can Kpin with graceful folds below the belt. The figure is mounted on a square copper alloy base. The sculptures created during the Baphuon period represents an apex never quite equaled again in Khmer art. The gods are handsome and well build Khmer aritocratic mail figures and the goddesses are beautiful, sencuous, graceful females. These sacred images are elegant and naturalistic in there appeal, presenting deities in idealized human terms. Detail: close-up of face Detail: ear |