Adoring Apsaras Sandstone Vietnam, Cham Period, Tra Kieu style

The upper body of the apsaras emerges from the back plate with two rows of lotus petals forming a skirt at the waist, a stepped halo behind her head, her hands forming anjalimudra (adoration), wearing a high, tiered crown decorated with small triangular shapes resembling petals and further adorned with a multi-layered necklace, armbands, bracelets and large globular earrings.

Acquired 1970

See P. Pal, Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Volume 3, Art of Sri Lanka & Southeast Asia, Yale University Press, 2004, pp. 240-241, fig. 188; also a later example see P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Thames and Hudson, 1997, p. 209, cat. 277.