
Mark Rasmussen
International Director
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This superbly modelled head has the distinctive square-knot chignon associated with Maitreya in Gandharan art, as featured on a closely related figure held in the Lahore Museum (see A. Rehmani, Masterpieces of Lahore Museum, Lahore, 1999, no. 12, p. 18). Three other examples are published in Ingholt, Gandharan art in Pakistan, New York, 1957, nos 294-6.
It is often colloquially referred to as the Appolline haircut as it bears obvious similarity to the celebrated classical sculpture, Apollo Belverdere (or Pythian Apollo), held in the Vatican Museum, Rome (see M. Bieber, The sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, New York, 1961, fig. 200).
This head would have belonged to a monumental figure, of similar size to two examples held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see Behrendt, The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007, now 53-4, pp. 70-1).
Provenance:
Doris Wiener Collection