XXRARE 13th CENTURY KHMER RED SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA PROVENANCE: RUXTON & LOVE COLLECTION -SOLD AT CHRISTIES Start Price USD 2,250.00 Current Price USD 2,250.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, August 28, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 Location New York, New York See more about 'XXRARE 13th CENTURY KHMER RED SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA' Description You are bidding on a fantastic original KHMER RED SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA (on stand) - Circa 13th Century, from The C. Ruxton and Audrey B. Love Collection: Important European Furniture and Asian Works of Art, bought at Worldwide Powerhouse Auction House, Christie's New York.   This Sale was simply amazing and I bought a few wonderful items there.   There were several news articles about this amazing collection (please do your search and you will find them). I am enclosing a copy of one of them below.   Here are the details about this Auction:   "The C. Ruxton and Audrey B. LOve Collection: Important European Furniture and Asian Works of Art" Christie's New York, Rockfeller Center   Date: October 20, 2004   I will provide a copy of the invoice as a proof of provenance.   Here are the details about this item:   Lot Description: "A Khmer Red Sandstone Head of Buddha" Lobpuri Period, circa 13th Century   "The square face with pendent ears, diadem and tiered coiffure"   6"Tall (15.3cm) 4 1/2"Wide (11.4cm) 4"Deep (10.2cm)   10 3/4"Tall with Stand (27.3cm)   Provenance: Christie's, New York     CONDITION REPORT: Please note that this is approx. 800 years old and it has normal aging to it. The overall condition is good. PLEASE LOOK AT DETAILED PICTURES. (See pictures and feel free to ask me for any additional images).      PLEASE READ THIS: I am an extremely honest person and have excellent reputation and feedback on ebay (feel free to check it). I will make everything possible to make any ebay transaction a smooth and positive experience. I will also try to describe the item as accurate as possible. Feel free to ask me any questions and for additional photos.   I’ll be offering other important images, paintings, photographs and antiques on ebay.   I only offer unique high quality items bought from very diverse sources, collections and estates.   Bid with confidence.   Good Luck     Here's a news article about that sale: Loves’ Loves for Sae If character is destiny, then it is also true that a name can define a life. Cornelius Ruxton Love Jr. committed himself to grandeur in a century best known for pared-down modernism. Scion of an old Brooklyn family, Yale graduate, diplomat and, later, successful member of the New York Stock Exchange, when he was secretary to the U.S. ambassador to China, Love was traveling by ocean liner from Shanghai to Tientsin when he met his match: Audrey. Daughter of Edythe Guggenheim and Admiral Louis Josephthal, she was an arts enthusiast and had performed as an actress on Broadway. These two remarkable characters shared a passion for opera and became determined collectors of silver, art and furniture with a distinctly dramatic flair. Although Ruxton Love had begun by collecting Chinese art during his many trips to that country, he soon pursued more spectacular specimens of Regency ormolu and Napoleonic silver gilt. These were shown to great effect in the couple’s home at 655 Park Avenue, where they glittered in an atmosphere rich with Italian pietra dura and George II furniture, Chinese lacquered screens and Roman sculpture. Ruxton Love bought what he liked and spared no expense. He would pay the asking price if the piece was a worthy addition to the collection. “In the best sense of the word, Love was a dilettante with a passionate interest in a very wide range of the decorative arts and with an unerring eye for quality but also the decorative look of an object,” says Anthony Phillips, international director of the silver department at Christie’s. “Love was completely sure of his own taste, buying far ahead of his time,” Phillips adds. In 1947, for example, he bought an engraved Elizabethan ewer and basin from the historic J. Pierpont Morgan sale, which is now considered a highlight of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. His passion for silver continued for 20 years, and at a 1968 Christie’s sale, he acquired two extraordinary Regency sideboard dishes: the Nike dish made by Philip Rundell for the first Jewish English baronet, Sir Issac-Lyon Goldsmid, and the Triumph of Bacchus dish supplied by Paul Storr to the second Earl of Aylesbury. The year before, he had purchased the Duke of York’s Hercules centerpiece in a Christie’s sale in London. Such elaborate and embellished 19th-century silver was hardly in keeping with the taste of the swinging ’60s, but Love stayed his course. The couple lived quietly with their growing treasure trove, occasionally loaning pieces to museum exhibitions. “One of my fondest memories of 20 years in New York is Audrey Love’s regular fall parties lit by candlelight and with this staggering backdrop of glittering sophisticated Regency and Napoleonic silver-gilt and ormolu and exotic Chinese Imperial screens,” Phillips says. The philanthropic Loves donated much of their collection to museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was given a set of 12 Elizabeth I engraved parcel-gilt silver plates made around 1567. A selection of remarkabe pieces from the C. Ruxton and Audrey Love Collection is being auctioned by Christie’s New York on October 19 and 20. The proceeds of the sale go to a foundation in Audrey Love’s name to support medical research and animal welfare, the performing arts and museums.  Place a Bid!