Swiss-based Koller Auctions of Zurich aren’t at the top of the worldwide auction house league-table like Sotheby’s or Christie’s -B

Khmer Art Comparison: Swiss-based Koller Auctions of Zurich aren’t at the top of the worldwide auction house league-table like Sotheby’s or Christie’s, though they are very highly regarded, and in the past have sold numerous Khmer antiquities. Their auction on 26 November last year included just a single Khmer piece, this fierce-looking though damaged head of a Yaksa (or Yaksha) guardian, which sold for USD5,200, and reminded me of two other very similar menacing faces. With the bulging eyeballs and heavy-layered eyebrows, large wide nose and fangs protruding from the mouth, coupled with a feathery moustache, spiky tight loops of hair that flow down over the shoulders, rosettes on the temples and enormous earrings put me in mind of heads that can be found at the National Museum in Phnom Penh and another currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Both of the latter heads came from temples at the Koh Ker complex, so its very likely that the Koller head was there too before its was sold by Cheng Huat of Bangkok to a private German collection in 1971. The conical shaped chignon above the decorated diadem is badly damaged on the Koller example, though the fierceness of the face leaves a lasting impression in the case of all three images.Credit By :Andy Brouwer

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Swiss-based Koller Auctions of Zurich aren’t at the top of the worldwide auction house league-table like Sotheby’s or Christie’s, though they are very highly regarded, and in the past have sold numerous Khmer antiquities. Their auction on 26 November last year included just a single Khmer piece, this fierce-looking though damaged head of a Yaksa (or Yaksha) guardian, which sold for USD5,200, and reminded me of two other very similar menacing faces. With the bulging eyeballs and heavy-layered eyebrows, large wide nose and fangs protruding from the mouth, coupled with a feathery moustache, spiky tight loops of hair that flow down over the shoulders, rosettes on the temples and enormous earrings put me in mind of heads that can be found at the National Museum in Phnom Penh and another currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Both of the latter heads came from temples at the Koh Ker complex, so its very likely that the Koller head was there too before its was sold by Cheng Huat of Bangkok to a private German collection in 1971. The conical shaped chignon above the decorated diadem is badly damaged on the Koller example, though the fierceness of the face leaves a lasting impression in the case of all three images.Credit By :Andy Brouwer

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