Oil lamp. Cambodia. Khmer art. XII-XIV centuries.

Oil lamp. Cambodia. Khmer art. XII-XIV centuries.
Bronze.
It has a small flaw in the base.
Measurements: 15 x 12 x 12 cm.

Cambodian oil lamp of the Khmer period in bronze, with the plate seated on a conical base of stepped profile.

The Khmer or Khmer is one of the most important cultures developed in Indochina. At the beginning of the 7th century, the first inscriptions in their language appear in the Indian kingdom of Tshenla, located in the middle course of the Mekong River. The Khmer reorganized politically, and in the 9th century achieved the unity of present-day Cambodia under the reign of Jayavarman II (802-850), founder of the kingdom of Angkor. This monarch had spent his youth in the refined court of the sailendra of Java, so he brought to his country an important influence of the Javanese culture, as well as the courtly protocol of that dynasty. The Khmer art reached its moment of splendor during the period of Angkor, developed between the IX and XIII centuries, and reached very different fields, such as textiles, lacquer, ceramics, goldsmithery, etc.