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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A DANCING HEVAJRA, ANGKOR PERIOD, BAYON STYLE
奥地利 北京时间
2023年03月09日 开拍
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A DANCING HEVAJRA, ANGKOR PERIOD, BAYON STYLE
Khmer Empire, late 12th to early 13th century. The eight-headed deity very well cast dancing atop a prostrate figure with one leg raised and arms radiating around him holding diminutive figures of deities and animals, wearing a short sampot secured with a pendent fishtail sash, the details intricately rendered.

Provenance: From a noted private collection. A copy of a certificate of authenticity, N° 389912, issued and signed by an archeologist and an official representative of the Asian Antiques Association of Thailand, dated 17 October 2014, confirming the dating above, and noting Prasat Muang Phai, Sakaew province, Thailand, as the original provenance for the present figure, accompanies this lot. A copy of an export license, issued by the government of the Kingdom of Thailand, EB0078/2022, also accompanies this lot.
Condition:
Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, minor losses, small dents and nicks, signs of weathering and erosion, soil deposits, corrosion, encrustations, all as expected from a Khmer bronze of nearly 1,000 years of age. Superb, naturally grown, rich patina with extensive malachite encrustation and faint hues of cuprite. The surface of the figure has been cleaned in areas where the corrosion was thick and obscured the cast detail. A corrosion inhibiting varnish was then applied to the surface for protection against moisture intake from the atmosphere.

Weight: 3,613 g (excl. base)
Dimensions: Height 37.5 cm (excl. base, incl. tang) and 41 cm (incl. base)

With a fitted modern metal base. (2)

Hevajra is the personification of enlightenment, the dance pose symbolizing the process of enlightenment as liberation from worldly constraints.

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related Khmer Bayon-style bronze of Hevajra, 22.7 cm high, in the CB National Museum, inventory number Ga.4170. Another closely related example was exhibited in the Ethnological Museum, Berlin. Compare a closely related Khmer Bayon-style bronze of Hevajra, 41 cm high, dated c. 1180-1230, illustrated in Wolfgang Felten and Martin Lerner, Thai Sculpture from the 6th to the 14th centuries, Stuttgart, 1988, p. 235, no. 37.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 23 September 2004, lot 57
Price: USD 31,070 or approx. EUR 44,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A bronze figure of a dancing Hevajra, Khmer, Angkor period, Bayon style, late 12th/early 13th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related pose, number of heads and arms, and malachite patina. Note the smaller size (24 cm).

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