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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 948053, member: 2844&quot;]As 2many said, the head is from a wayang golek puppet, from West Java, Indonesia.</p><p>It represent one of the kings in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The part that is painted red usually has a flame on it, like on mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]203523[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The flame represents the cosmic flame which appears when a prince has a divine revelation (Wahyu Cakraningrat) as a result of which he is appointed as divine king (Devaraja).</p><p><br /></p><p>The horse is typical of Rajasthan, it is seen a lot as a support for roofs (top of pillar) or balconies. This one doesn&#039;t look like it was a support, but it is in the same style.</p><p><br /></p><p>The statue represents the Bodhisattva (Buddha aspect) Avalokiteshvara as Padmapani. Padma means lotus, which is what the flowers are. You don&#039;t see seated Padmapanis that much, most are standing.</p><p>My guess is it was made in what is now Pakistan, before the Partition which caused most of the Hindus to move out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The horse and Padmapani are nice pieces, I like them.</p><p>The head looks like it was used in a wayang theatre, which it has going for it. But if the puppet was the same quality as the head, it was nowhere near top quality. Decapitating it made things worse imho.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":sorry:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie17" alt=":bag:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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