Description
This four-armed deity wears a sarong skirt, with its pleated end folded over the belt, as was the fashionable Bakheng style during this period. The incised lines beneath the breasts indicated folds of flesh as marks of beauty. This figure relates to the sculptures of the Phnom Bakheng, a temple dedicated to Shiva.
Provenance
(I. Kahane, Inc., Zürich, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1971); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1971–)
Accession Number
1971.134
Medium
stone
Dimensions
Overall: 89 cm (35 1/16 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund