 Marwaree Women by Taurines
No. 61.Marwaree Women by Taurines.7 x 9 ins
|  Fishermen of East Bengal
No. 62.Fishermen of East Bengal, Ghosal Bros of Shilon circa 1910.8 x 6 ins.
|  3. SANDSTONE FIGURE OF VISHNU Current and Past Exhibitions
3. SANDSTONE FIGURE OF VISHNU.KHMER, PRE-ANGKOR PERIOD,7TH - 8TH CENTURY.H. (EXCLUDING TANG): 67 CMS, 26 ½ INS.H. (INCLUDING TANG): 84 CMS, 33 INS .An important sandstone figure of a four-armed Vishnu, dynamic and powerful, standing on a rectangular pedestal and wearing a cylindrical mitre headdress; the face meditative and smiling serenely; the contours of his lower body visible beneath a diaphanous ankle-length sampot, its folds delineated by faintly incised lines, with a long central sash hanging down between his legs.Note: The ankles are repaired.Vishnu, together with Brahma and Siva, is one of the members of the Hindu trimurti (Skt. “Triple Form”). Vishnu becomes incarnate in different divine forms (avatars) from age to age in order to preserve the world.For a related image, attributed to the Mekong Delta, see plate 10 in Emma Bunker and Douglas Latchford, Adoration and Glory: The Golden Age of Khmer Art, Chicago: Art Media Resources, 2004.PROVENANCE: Property of a private Japanese collector.
|  SANDSTONE FIGURE OF VISHNU Current and Past Exhibitions
No. 9.SANDSTONE FIGURE OF VISHNU.KHMER, PRE-ANGKOR PERIOD, PHNOM DA STYLE, 6TH - 7TH CENTURY.H. 28.5 CMS, 11 ¼ INS.A grey sandstone figure of a four-armed Vishnu, the face broad and imposing beneath a mitre headdress, the upper left hand holding a conch and the upper right a chakra, the belt and pleats of the knee-length sampot delineated by shallow, incised lines.Note: The cross-bar behind the head has been repaired.For a related figure of a Phnom Da Vishnu in the Phnom Penh Museum, see plate 84 in M. Girard-Geslan et al, Art of Southeast Asia, New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1998.PROVENANCE: Property of a private Japanese collector.
|  STUCCO HEAD OF A WOMAN AND STUCCO HEAD OF BUDDHA (SOLD) Current and Past Exhibitions
No. 16(LEFT).STUCCO HEAD OF A WOMAN.THAILAND, MON-DVARAVATI PERIOD, 7TH - 8TH CENTURY.H. 18.5 CMS, 7 ¼ INS.No. 16 (RIGHT).STUCCO HEAD OF BUDDHA.THAILAND, SUKHOTHAI PERIOD, 14TH CENTURY.H. 13 CMS, 5 INS.SOLDPROVENANCE (BOTH): Property of a private Japanese collector.
|  SANDSTONE HANDS OF A DEITY Current and Past Exhibitions
No. 23(LEFT). LARGE BRONZE HAND OF BUDDHA .THAILAND, SUKHOTHAI PERIOD, 14TH CENTURY.L. 25 CMS, 10 INS.Reference: see nos. 58a and b in T. Bowie (ed.), The Sculpture of Thailand, Exhibition catalogue, New York: Asia Society, 1972.SOLDNo. 24 (CENTRE).SANDSTONE HAND OF A DEITY, POSSIBLY PRAJNAPARAMITA, HOLDING A LOTUS.KHMER, ANGKOR PERIOD, BAYON STYLE, LATE 12TH – EARLY 13TH CENTURY.L. 19 CMS, 7 ½ INS.No. 25(RIGHT). BRONZE HAND OF A MALE DEITY.SOLD.PROVENANCE (ALL THREE): Property of a private Japanese collector.
|  Colossal reddish-brown terracotta piggy bank
ST122.A colossal reddish-brown terracotta piggy bank of squat and corpulent form, the face humorous and smiling, with a long curling tail and a bell and chain around his neck.Eastern Javanese, Majapahit period.15th century.Length: 52 cm, 20 ½ ins.A long tradition of trade between China and Java culminated with the establishment of a trading colony in 1297. The Chinese were subsequently responsible for the first regular use of coins in Java, a practice that became widespread by the 15th century. During the 14th and 15th centuries, large numbers of terracotta rams, turtles, frogs and pigs were made, all provided with a slot in the back for the insertion of copper coins. Pigs were particularly popular because of their association with prosperity and were modelled with great care, usually wearing heavy necklaces and consisting of short, squat legs supporting great fat bodies. Elephants are rare. Javanese money-boxes were unlikely to have been owned by individuals and probably had a ritual function, attached to household or village shrines.
|  Blackstone figure of Vishnu atop Garuda Current and Past Exhibitions
ST417 Blackstone figure of Vishnu atop Garuda.Nepal, Kathmandu Valley, circa 16th century. H. (excl. tang) 49 cms, 19 1/2 ins.A superb, polished blackstone figure of a four-armed Vishnu with an intense spiritual gaze, standing on a lotus pedestal atop a Garuda with outstretched wings, wearing extensive jewellery and holding a club, a chakra, a lotus and a conch; with four kneeling acolytes at his feet.Reference: no. 97 in S. & J. Huntington, Leaves from the Bodhi Tree: The Art of Pala India and Its International Legacy, Dayton Art Institute, 1990.
|  Painted plaster Caste Figures
CASTE FIGURES.INDIA, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY.H. 11 CMS, 4 ¼ INS..A delightful collection of thirty-six plaster figures of officials, religious figures, tradesmen, servants and mendicants, each individually modelled and painted by hand.These expertly modelled and painted figures provide a snapshot of different levels of Indian society during the late nineteenth century. Such figures are fragile and do not normally survive in such numbers or in such an excellent condition. They were usually made of plaster and some were later embellished with cloth garments and with hair. They were mostly produced by local craftsmen in Krishnanagar near Calcutta, Lucknow and Poona as souvenirs for European visitors to the country. Their secondary purpose appears to have been to help westerners make sense of the bewildering complexity of Indian society. For a related group in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, see cat. no. 365 in Bayly, C.A. (general editor), The Raj: India and the British 1600-1947. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1990. Provenance: English private collection.
|  A red terracotta piggy bank
A diminutive reddish-brown terracotta piggy bank of spherical form, with a smiling face and stubby legs.Eastern Javanese, Majapahit period, 15th-16th century.Length: 9 cms, 3 ½ ins.A long tradition of trade between China and Java culminated with the establishment of a trading colony in 1297. The Chinese were subsequently responsible for the first regular use of coins in Java, a practice that became widespread by the 15th century. During the 14th and 15th centuries, large numbers of terracotta rams, turtles, frogs and pigs were made, all provided with a slot in the back for the insertion of copper coins. Pigs were particularly popular because of their association with prosperity and were modelled with great care, usually wearing heavy necklaces and consisting of short, squat legs supporting great fat bodies. Elephants are rare. Javanese moneyboxes were unlikely to have been owned by individuals and probably had a ritual function, attached to household or village shrines.
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