13th Oct, 2023 11:00
THREE-DAY AUCTION - Fine Chinese Art / 中國藝術集珍 / Buddhism & Hinduism
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A DANCING HEVAJRA, BAYON STYLE, ANGKOR PERIOD
Sold for €26,000
including Buyer's Premium
Khmer Empire, late 12th to early 13th century. The eight-headed deity 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. The bronze with a superb, rich, naturally grown patina with extensive malachite encrustation.
Provenance: From the collection of René Ronveaux (d. 1991), Belgium, acquired circa in the 1970s and thence by descent to Robert Ronveaux (b. 1955). A copy of a provenance statement, written and signed by Robert Ronveaux, dated 8 December 2022, confirming the provenance stated above, accompanies this lot.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, small cracks, losses and dents, some possibly with minor old fills, signs of weathering and erosion, soil deposits, encrustations, all as expected from a Khmer bronze of nearly 1,000 years of age.
Weight: 2,700 g
Dimensions: Height 36.4 cm (incl. base) and 33 cm (excl. base)
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Mounted on a wood stand. (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 bronze of Hevajra, 22.7 cm high, in the National Museum in Phnom Penh, inventory number Ga.4170. Another closely related example was exhibited in the Ethnological Museum, Berlin. Compare a closely related Khmer 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 45,000 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 modeling with similar pose and the same number of heads and arms, and malachite patina. Note the smaller size (24 cm).
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Galerie Zacke, Vienna, 9 March 2023, lot 220
Price: EUR 33,800
Description: A bronze figure of a dancing Hevajra, Angkor Period, Bayon style
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling with similar pose and the same number of heads and arms, and malachite patina. Note the size (37.5 cm).
Khmer Empire, late 12th to early 13th century. The eight-headed deity 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. The bronze with a superb, rich, naturally grown patina with extensive malachite encrustation.
Provenance: From the collection of René Ronveaux (d. 1991), Belgium, acquired circa in the 1970s and thence by descent to Robert Ronveaux (b. 1955). A copy of a provenance statement, written and signed by Robert Ronveaux, dated 8 December 2022, confirming the provenance stated above, accompanies this lot.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, small cracks, losses and dents, some possibly with minor old fills, signs of weathering and erosion, soil deposits, encrustations, all as expected from a Khmer bronze of nearly 1,000 years of age.
Weight: 2,700 g
Dimensions: Height 36.4 cm (incl. base) and 33 cm (excl. base)
Please click here to read the full description
Mounted on a wood stand. (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 bronze of Hevajra, 22.7 cm high, in the National Museum in Phnom Penh, inventory number Ga.4170. Another closely related example was exhibited in the Ethnological Museum, Berlin. Compare a closely related Khmer 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 45,000 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 modeling with similar pose and the same number of heads and arms, and malachite patina. Note the smaller size (24 cm).
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Galerie Zacke, Vienna, 9 March 2023, lot 220
Price: EUR 33,800
Description: A bronze figure of a dancing Hevajra, Angkor Period, Bayon style
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling with similar pose and the same number of heads and arms, and malachite patina. Note the size (37.5 cm).
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