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A RARE SANDSTONE HEAD OF HARIHARA, PRE-ANGKOR PERIOD
奥地利 北京时间
2023年03月09日 开拍
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A RARE SANDSTONE HEAD OF HARIHARA, PRE-ANGKOR PERIOD
7th to late 8th century. Finely carved with a serene expression, almond-shaped eyes with neatly incised pupils, and full lips forming a subtle smile, flanked by long pendulous earlobes. The hair is partly jatamakuta (braided) and partly kiritamakuta (cylindrical), representing Shiva and Vishnu, respectively.

Provenance: From the private collection of Camille Mines (1950-2018), Luxembourg. By repute acquired by his father, René Mines, in the local trade during the early 1970s. By descent to Robert Mines. A copy of a handwritten provenance statement signed by Robert Mines, dated 15 September 2022, confirming the above, accompanies this lot.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, cracks, losses, nicks, scratches, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations.

Dimensions: Height 30 cm (excl. stand), height 41 cm (incl. stand)

Mounted to a modern stand. (2)

Syncretism is a favored device in Indian cosmologies for representing the complex and multifaceted personalities of the gods. The oldest archaeological evidence of this practice is sculptures from Kushana-era Mathura (late 1st – 3rd century), northern India, depicting Shiva combined with his female aspect, Parvati, as the androgynous Ardhanarishvara. Vishnu (Hari) combined with Shiva (Hara) appeared later in India, in the fifth century during the Gupta period, and is explained mythically as Shiva representing the male half of the universe and Vishnu, in his female aspect as Mohini, representing the female element. Harihara is born of their sexual union.

The artistic styles that developed during the Pre-Angkor period, before the capital was moved north to Angkor, exhibit a wider range of artistic motifs than those that would develop during the Angkor period. Phnom Da was an important center of artistic creation during the 6th-7th centuries.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related sandstone head of Harihara, 11.5 cm high, also dated to the Pre-Angkor period, in the CB National Museum, inventory number Ka.2687. Compare a related sandstone head of Harihara, dated to the early 7th century, in the collection of the Musée Guimet, inventory number MG14899, exhibited in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, 14 April to 27 July 2014, cat. no. 91.

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