Pre Angkor stone statue of a halo with 2 hands from Cambodia, 7th-8th century

• Fragment consists of 3 pieces which were attached together in a solid way.
• Comes with a custom made metal stand.
• Comes out of an old Dutch collection and was collected in Bangkok in the '60/'70.

Vishnu was the divine Hindu preserver and protector of human life, a role that provided natural analogies with earthly kingship for the Khmer.

Vishnu is mostly depicted with more then 2 arms with hands holding objects. In this case the right hand holds a chakra, a wheel-shaped thrown weapon with the properties of a boomerang. His left hand holds a conch-shell trumpet by its longer end also known as a shankha. Conch shells were extremely important in both Hindu and Buddhist rituals, and blowing a conch was believed to scare off evil spirits.

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