Included in the images of unpublished Khmer antiquities from the 1989 book, Thai and Cambodian Sculpture from the 6th to 14th Centuries, written by Wolfgang Felten and Martin Lerner, was another of the top three highest-selling Khmer artworks of all-time at public auction. This particular Uma statue was the original record-setter, bought at a September 2004 auction for USD 1,127,500, five times her original estimate. This figure had been in the hands of London-based dealers Spink & Son in 1984 (notoriously known as the UK clearing house for Douglas Latchford-linked antiquities), before finding its way into the collection of Nathan L. Halpern, a television mogul who died in 2004, hence its appearance at the Christie’s auction in New York. This too was a Baphuon-era 11th century sculpture, beautifully polished, with a domed topknot, her slim figure accentuated by her pleated sampot with a fishtail fold at the front. All of the top-three selling sculptures were sold at Christie’s in full view of the public and media and more importantly, government authorities, at art auctions by the world’s leading auction house, for quite insane amounts of money changing hands, without an eyebrow raised in rebuke. That period was really the height of Khmer artifacts fetching enormous sums of money on the open art market. Uma, as the Mother Goddess and wife of the god Shiva enjoyed such powers as the deity of fertility, power, energy, devotion, marriage, motherhood, children, love, and harmony, quite the repertoire. This particular goddess is now out of the public eye in a private collection somewhere.Credit By :Andy Brouwer
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