Standing female figure wearing a pleated sampot and a conical crown. She holds her two hands slightly in front of her. A small, badly abraded image of Amitabha Buddha sits in her headdress.
Provenance
Said to have been found near Wat Phu, Champasak Province, Laos. Early 1980s, on the art market in Thailand. 1988, sold by Doris Wiener, Inc., New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 21, 1988)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the University Museum of Philadelphia and MFA Persian Expedition, MFA Expedition, Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour, Gift of the John Goelet Foundation, Arthur Mason Knapp Fund, Gift of the Estate of William F. Whittemore, Gift of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Gift of the Honorable Lady Hood, Bequest of Dona Luisa Coomaraswamy, Gift of Mrs. Henry Lyman, General Funds, Gift of Abdul Faraq Shaer, Anonymous gift, Gift of Reginald Jenney, Gift of N.M. Heeramaneck, Gift of W. O. Comstock, and funds from the William Francis Warden Fund
Female Deity
Khmer, Angkor Period, late 10th–early 11th century
