Auction 355 | ISLAMIC & ORIENTAL ART Traditional
Lot 161
A gray stone fragment most possibly depicting the Hindu deity Vishnu standing, identifiable by the presence of the four arms that originally beared four objects related to the cult of the powerful divinity.
Usually these four attributes, meant as spiritual weapons in the metaphysical battle for the universal domino, can be identified in the Panchajayna shell used as a war trumpet, in the Sudarshana disc, a throwing weapon, in the Kaumodaki mace and in the flowering branch of lotus, Padma, a symbol of transcendence.
For a related example see Sherman Lee, Ancient Cambodia Sculpture, 1969, fig. n. 4, p. 40.
Measures: 54.0 x 34.0 cm
Starting price: € 12.000,00
Estimate: € 20.000,00 - 25.000,00
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