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AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE SILVER REPOUSSÉ HEAD OF SHIVA, LINGAKOSA, WITH MATCHING EARRINGS AND NECKLACE
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2024年12月17日 开拍
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AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE SILVER REPOUSSé HEAD OF SHIVA, LINGAKOSA, WITH MATCHING EARRINGS AND NECKLACE

Central Vietnam, former kingdoms of Champa, 8th-10th century. The head displaying the classic iconography of Shiva, the central deity of the Cham people, with long earlobes and piled up locks of hair tied in braids and centered by a half-moon. The face showing a fine, calm expression with almond-shaped eyes, one uninterrupted bow-shaped eyebrow below the third eye, a broad nose, an elegantly curved mustache, and thick lips forming a subtle smile. The head adorned with loose earrings and a necklace. The eyes and jewelry inlaid with garnets.

Provenance: Ex-Collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, few nicks, small dents, light surface scratches, encrustations, minor signs of weathering and erosion, and few small malachite encrustations. Some of the garnets may be later additions.

Weight: 447 g
Dimensions: Height 25 cm

Gold and silver Shiva heads such as this one once belonged to lingakosa but were often separated due to the weak riveting used to fix the heads to the linga bodies.

The act of religious patronage most singled out for attention in early inscriptions from Champa was the commissioning and installation of lingakosas, precious metal sheaths with a raised face of Shiva Mahadeva, sometimes encrusted with jewels. Sanskrit and Cham inscriptions of the sixth to eighth century make clear that lingakosas were gifts of the highest order, reserved for royal and other high-ranking donors and accruing much merit for their donors. The earliest confirmed reference to the installation of a lingakosa in a Cham temple ritual is in an inscription on a stele installed by King Prakasadharma-Vikrantavarman in 687.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related silver lingakosa dated ca. 8th-10th century, exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, 14 April-27 July 2014, cat. no. 89. Compare a closely related gold and silver repoussé head of Shiva, dated ca. 9th-10th century, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1996.239. Compare a closely related gold and silver lingakosa, also with matching earrings and necklace, dated to the 8th century, in the Musée Guimet, inventory number MA6835.

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