
Mark Rasmussen
International Director
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健陀羅 四/五世紀 灰泥佛坐像
His flame-licked shoulders suggest the figure initially featured as part of a depiction of Buddha's first miracle at Sravasti. The Kasyapas, leaders of India's six prevailing philosophical schools, invited him to a contest of miraculous powers believing they could demonstrate his inferiority. Instead, Buddha's miracles (the first of which had flames and water issuing from his shoulders and feet) resulted in the conversion of the Kasyapas' ninety-thousand followers. Stone examples bearing these same markings were sold at Christie's, New York, 21 March 2012, lot 720 & 12 September 2012, lot 507, and another published in Luczanits, Gandhara: Das Buddhistische Erbe Pakistans, 2008, p. 358, cat. no. 279.
Referenced:
HAR - himalayanart.org/items/33038
Provenance:
Private European Collection
Acquired from Beagle Gallery, London, 1 June 1993