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Lot 77

A schist head of Buddha
Ancient region of Gandhara, 3rd/4th century

14 September 2015, 14:00 EDT
New York

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A schist head of Buddha

Ancient region of Gandhara, 3rd/4th century
Finely carved with soft contours and confident wavy locks finished with a smooth polish.
8 in. (20.3 cm) high

Footnotes

健陀羅 三/四世紀 片巖佛首

For a closely related head with a shallow and broad ushnisha from a sculpture of Preaching Buddha formerly in the C.T. Loo Collection, see Saunders, Mudra, Princeton, 1985, pl. XII. For similar dark polished heads of Buddha, see Simon Ray, London, September 2014, no.1 and Pal, Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum, Volume I, 2003, p. 52, no. 20.

Provenance:
Private Collection
Acquired From Hartman Rare Art, NY, 1984

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