Architectural fragment. Xth century, Trà Kiêu style. Stone. H. ca. 55.9 cm, D ca. 53.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Gift of Robert H. Ellsworth. Ltd. 1990.34.

Because the back of this figure head has no décoration, which suggests that it was only meant to be seen from the front, and given the shape of the fragment, it was probably fitted into the wall of a monument. The edged three-tiered headgear with a pattern of alternating petals of this figure, similar to the one worn by the female worshiper from the superstructures of Trà Kiêu (Boisselier 1963 a : Fig. 120), and the one in Fig. 8, unmistakably place this one in the Trà Kiêu style.

"Some Remarkable Cham sculptures in American Museums" Natasha Eilenberg, Robert L. Brown

 

Article de "La Lettre de la SACHA" n°6, décember 1999, page 7.