Eastern Java, possibly Madjapahit Dynasty, carved from gray volcanic stone in the form of a seated sage, approximately 20-1/2 x 10-1/2 x 9 in.
Provenance: The Collection of William S. Arnett, Atlanta, Georgia; sold to benefit Tinwood Foundation
Note: Exhibited and illustrated in Beyond India: An Exhibition of Works of Art from Southeast Asia in the William and Robert Arnett Collection, The High Museum of Art, 1974, no. 56. The High Museum attributes this figure to circa 15th century.
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The Collection of William S. Arnett, Atlanta, Georgia; sold to benefit Tinwood Foundation
weathered surfaces commensurate with age and use outdoors, some pitting and craters throughout, surface dirt, old worn down breaks and losses, particularly at facial features, some trace remnants of old pigment
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