A high relief frieze carved with figures of deities in the center and rich festoon decoration.
The rigorous arrangement of the volumes and the perfect balance of the forms, reflects a baroque taste, technically flawless, of the large stone or stucco decoration in the temples of Ankor of the 9th century which laid the foundations for a new aesthetic canon that lasted for the following centuries.
Provenance: Private Italian collection, published in "Ways to Asia. Treasures from China, Thailand, Cambodia and Resonances in Western Modernism". Hachmeister Gallery, Münster, Germany, 28 September 2013 - 22 February 2014, on the cover and pp. 70-73.