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The majority of Khmer artworks showcased in the 1989 book Monday, March 17, 2025
The majority of Khmer artworks showcased in the 1989 book, Thai and Cambodian Sculpture from the 6th to 14th Centuries, by authors Wolfgang Felten and Martin Lerner, were from unpublished private collections, unseen by the public. However, this distinctive head of a female deity, likely Parvati, from seventh century Cambodia, has been on display at the British Museum in London in the past. It was purchased by the museum from Spink & Son, art dealers in London and close associates of Douglas Latchford, in 1968. It remains in the museum’s collection.
A project by the SOAS University of London called Circumambulating Objects: on Paradigms of Restitution of Southeast Asian Art (CO-OP), has researched the British Museum’s collection of Khmer artifacts of approximately 224 objects, which were acquired across a period spanning from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It featured this particular female deity as follows: ‘The effect of the expanding market and popularity of Khmer art with museum curators can be seen in discussions around acquisition of a sandstone head of a female deity (BM 1968,0213.1), purchased in 1968 from Spink & Son. The report of the curator recommending the purchase concludes by alluding to the reputational, and even competitive, dimension to institutional collecting at this time: “If refused by the Museum, it will go to America” (BM Archives, Object File – Curator report recommending purchase of BM 1968,0213.1, 26 January 1968). The use of the Brooke Sewell Permanent Fund to purchase 15 Khmer objects (mostly bronze and sandstone religious sculpture but also two ceramic pieces) between 1959 and 2002 thus seems to reflect the general expansion of the market for Khmer art, and sculpture in particular, as well as the increased availability of funding.Credit by :andy.brouwer
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