Indian & Southeast Asian Art From the MacLean Collection
An Andesite Stone Lintel Depicting Kala, Indonesia, circa 10th Century
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September 20, 05:33 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Indian & Southeast Asian Art from the MacLean Collection
An Andesite Stone Lintel Depicting Kala
Indonesia, circa 10th Century
Height 22½ in. (57.2 cm)
in the form of a ferocious kala with teeth barred, with two diminutive fanged demons issuing from the corners of his mouth, stylized foliate eyebrows arching upwards from his bulging eyes and thick scrolling foliate above
Sotheby's New York, 28th October 1991, lot 110.
Sotheby's New York, 1st April 2005, lot 20.
Sotheby's New York, 1st April 2005, lot 20.
Passion for Form: Selections of Southeast Asian Art from the MacLean Collection, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, 2007, cat. no. 49.
The mask crowing the arches and gateways of central Javanese candis is usually described as kala and is a symbol of sun and light. The term is used specifically for the central Javanese form of the mask which lacks a lower jaw. The galleries of the great Buddhist monastery at Borobudur are ornamented with kala-makara motifs. The current lot has a fuller form and is more deeply carved. For a similar work, see Bernet Kempers, Ancient Indonesian Art, 1959, pl. 31.
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