Chinese Porcelain Company & Dhrishtadyumna: Friday, March 21, 2025
Chinese Porcelain Company & Dhrishtadyumna:
In July last year, Cambodia welcomed home the giant statue of Dhrishtadyumna, the commander of the Pandava Army, which was looted from Prasat Chen at Koh Ker in 1972. Today, he is reunited with his pedestal and is sat next to his fellow Prasat Chen sculptures in the National Museum in Phnom Penh. Dhrishtadyumna had been successfully re-possessed by American authorities on the hunt for Khmer antiquities sold by disgraced dealer Douglas Latchford to wealthy collectors George and Frayda Lindemann, where the massive stone figure was pictured in their hallway in Architectural Digest magazine in 2008. How and when Dhrishtadyumna came into Latchford’s possession isn’t clear but the sculpture was exhibited and sold in 1994 by the Chinese Porcelain Company of New York. The 68-page catalogue, Ancient Khmer Sculpture with text by Martin Lerner (Asian curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) was produced to accompany the exhibition held between 12 October and 12 November 1994 at their New York gallery. Proceeds from the brochure sales of the featured 20 sculptures were to benefit the work of The World Monuments Fund at Preah Khan. I’m hoping to obtain a copy of the catalogue but in the meantime have a couple of photographs from the publication. The cover image of the catalogue depicts a Radiating Lokeshvara that looks identical to another recently repatriated sculpture, which was sold by Latchford to collector James Clark in 2003. Khalil Rizk, the owner of the Chinese Porcelain Company, opened his first gallery in 1984 and with his business partner Conor Mahony, who came from Sotheby's in 1993, opened their new gallery in 1994.Credit By :andy.brouwer
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