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'BRILLIANCE FROM THE EAST EXHIBITION'

BRILLIANCE FROM THE EAST: AN IMPORTANT EXHIBITION OF INDIAN, SOUTHEAST ASIAN AND CHINESE ART.
AN EXHIBITION FOR SALE.
Thursday 30th October to Friday 21st November 2008.
We are delighted to present the catalogue for this, our ninth year of participation in Asian Art in London. This year’s exhibition will be held at our gallery from Thursday 30th October to Friday 21st November 2008 and will comprise a large and diverse selection of sculpture, ceramics and bronzes from Southeast Asia, India and China. We are offering thirty-six works of art this year, with our usual emphasis on the rare, the dramatic and the unusual. This year’s highlights include a remarkable trio of Khmer sculptures from two English private collections, early Chinese bronzes and ceramics, several Buddha images from Thailand’s Ayutthaya period and sculptures from the ancient Greco-Buddhist kingdom of Gandhara. We also have an important Pala figure of Vajra Tara from Northeast India, an unusually large and lively Tang dynasty camel and a complete, Lopburi-style bronze Buddha tabernacle from Thailand.
Antonia and I look forward to welcoming you to the gallery once again for this year’s exhibition and would be delighted to answer any questions you may have, either before or during the event.

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STUCCO HEAD OF A MONK
G347 STUCCO HEAD OF A MONK.THAILAND, LATE AYUTTHAYA PERIOD.18TH CENTURY.H. 28 CMS, 11 INS.A remarkable, gilded and lacquered stucco head of a monk, the features vivid and life-like, with a tranquil expression and mother-of-pearl inlaid eyes.The kingdom of Ayutthaya, established by King U Thong in 1350 in the Chao Phraya River basin to the north of Bangkok was, until the Burmese attacked and burned its capital in 1767, one of the richest and most enduring sovereignties of Southeast Asia, attracting innumerable merchants and other visitors, not only from neighbouring Asian countries but also from Europe as well. This head probably comes from an attendant figure to a large seated Buddha in a temple. The Wat Koh Kaeo Suttharam in the town of Phetchaburi - an important royal fort during the Ayutthaya period – was built in 1734 and has a related bronze ensemble - see page 45 in S. Leksukhum, Temples of Gold: Seven Centuries of Thai Buddhist Paintings, London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

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