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† A BRONZE ‘KIRTIMUKHA’ MIRROR, ANGKOR PERIOD, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
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06月27日 下午5点 开拍
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? A BRONZE ‘KIRTIMUKHA’ MIRROR, ANGKOR PERIOD, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

Khmer Empire. Of circular shape, finely incised with concentric lines below the raised lip, the reverse with a smoothly polished surface, fitted with an ornate lobed finial with a wide base in the form of a fierce kirtimukha, tapering to confronting lobed panels separated by a double-lotus band and enclosing seated deities, all surrounded by a mandorla of flame-like scrolling foliage.

Provenance: Arnold H. Lieberman, Buddhist & Hindu Antiquities, New York, 2001. Raymond Handley, Los Altos Hills, California, acquired from the above, and thence by descent to his wife Marsha Vargas Handley. Arnold Lieberman, known as ‘The Grumpy Connoisseur’, has been a fine art and antique dealer since the early 1970s and was on the board of directors of The Art and Antique Dealers League of America for ten years. Raymond G. Handley (1923-2009) partnered with Ray Renault in the 1950s to co-found one of California’s oldest and most successful real estate development firms. They were pioneers in shaping the early landscape of Silicon Valley, developing buildings for major tech innovators such as Intel and Raytheon, laying the groundwork for the region’s transformation into a global technology hub. Raymond Handley was a keen collector of art who traveled extensively, including the most remote parts of Papua New Guinea and Africa. In Mali, where his brother served as the Ambassador of the United States, he drilled more than fifty water wells for Dogon villages. His passion led him to establish Folk Art International/Xanadu Tribal Arts, an ethnographic art business which developed into the Xanadu Gallery in the late 1990s, located in the historic Frank Lloyd Wright building off Union Square, and continued by his widow Marsha Vargas Handley until her retirement in 2015. Having opened her first gallery in the Bay Area in 1973, she is an important figure in the Asian art world in her own right, serving as the president of the International Netsuke Society for over 16 years.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, small losses, casting irregularities, encrustations, cracks, minor old repairs, signs of weathering and erosion. The bronze with a naturally grown patina with extensive malachite encrustations.

Weight: 827 g
Dimensions: Length 30.5 cm

Literature comparison:
Compare a related bronze mirror without the ornate handle, dated Angkor period, 21.5 cm diameter, in the National Museum of Cambodia, inventory number Ga.6337.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s Amsterdam, 16 December 2003, lot 164
Price: EUR 9,560 or approx. EUR 15,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A Khmer, Angkor Vat style, bronze finial
Expert remark: Compare the related modeling and manner of casting with a mandorla similar to the finial of the present lot. Note the size (34.5 cm).



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