Kneeling Male Figure (1010–80): Art, History and Details

Kneeling Male Figure (1010–80) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The third eye in the forehead indicates that this figure identified himself with Shiva, but his kneeling stance with hands raised in a gesture of adoration indicates that he is a devotee of Shiva, who has taken on aspects of the god's physical appearance. The style of the lower garment with the low-slung belt is typical of work from the so-called Baphuon period of Khmer sculpture, like the stone standing image to the left. The eyes, eyebrows, moustache, and beard were once inlaid with silver.

Object facts

• Title: Kneeling Male Figure
• Date: 1010–80
• Culture: Cambodia, Angkor, Baphuon, Baphuon period, 1000s
• Type: Sculpture
• Technique: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 43.2 cm (17 in.)
• Collection: Cambodian Art
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1978.8

A detail from the museum

This bronze figure was cast using the lost-wax (cire perdu) technique with the core armature inside.

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Spink & Son. Octagon, XXII no. 3 (Autumn 1975): pp. 24-25.
• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 66, no. 1, 1979, pp. 3–47.
• "Report from America." Oriental Art, vol, XXV.1 (Spring 1979), p. 120.

View the collection record

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