A POLISHED SANDSTONE LINGAM

KHMER, ANGKOR PERIOD, ANGKOR OR BAYON STYLE, 12TH/13TH CENTURY

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A POLISHED SANDSTONE LINGAM
KHMER, ANGKOR PERIOD, ANGKOR OR BAYON STYLE, 12TH/13TH CENTURY
The surface smoothly polished with square base and octagonal middle section rising to cylindrical top with fine incising
18 ¼ in. (47 cm.) high

Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York City, New York, 1973

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This lot appears in Claudio Bravo's painting Vanitas, 1981 and Lingam, 1975 (P. Bowels and M. Vargas Llosa, Claudio Bravo Pinturas y Dibujos, Madrid, 1996, pp. 94-95 and E. J. Sullivan, Claudio Bravo, New York, 1985). A comparable sandstone lingam was sold from the Doris Wiener Collection at Christie's, New York, 20 March 2012, lot 166.

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