03-18-201703-18-2017
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2992BBoston
March 18, 2017 11:00 AMCalender
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Four Fragmentary Buddhist Heads

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Auction: Asian Works Of Art - 2992BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 18, 2017 11:00AM

Description:

Four Fragmentary Buddhist Heads, Southeast Asia, a stucco head, Thailand, the oval face with downcast eyes, smiling lips, and pointed chin, without ushnisha; a limestone head, Cambodia, with broad forehead; a black-lacquered stone head, possibly Myanmar, the oval face with shell-inlaid eyes, broken ushnisha; and a sandstone head, Cambodia, with a double topknot, damaged, all mounted on a modern wood stand, head ht. to 7 3/4 in.
Estimate $400-600

age wear and tear with multiple chips, breakages, brittleness, loss of details.


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Keywords

Myanmar, Thailand