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A SCHIST FIGURE OF BUDDHA ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD/4TH CENTURY image 1
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Lot 303

A SCHIST FIGURE OF BUDDHA
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD/4TH CENTURY

22 March 2022, 09:00 EDT
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A SCHIST FIGURE OF BUDDHA

ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD/4TH CENTURY
31 3/4 in. (80.7 cm) high

Footnotes

犍陀羅 三/四世紀 片岩佛陀像

By the beginning of the 3rd century, the focus on narrative panels in Gandharan art shifted to iconic statues of Buddha and bodhisattvas in line with the growing of institutionalization of Mahayana Buddhism in the region. Depicting Buddha Shakyamuni, the present lot is one such devotional icons. Finely modeled in the classic Gandharan style, the enlightened one offers his worshippers a compassionate yet determined expression. His left hand would have held the edge of his robe, while his right would have offered a gesture of reassurance abhaya mudra.

Drawing on Greco-Roman sculptural traditions, the sculptor emphasized the naturalism of Buddha's heavy monastic robe, which wraps around his neck in thick layers and forms U-shaped folds on his legs with a convincing sense of gravity. His hair is also impeccably carved, with wavy locks radiating from the center of the hairline. The underskirt that would have wrapped around Buddha's waist, visible around his ankles below the bottom edge of his robe, is equally well rendered.

The sculpture is closely related to another Standing Buddha with a corresponding treatment of the hair in front of a large, plain halo, and stylized flower motif below his feet, preserved at the Penn Museum, Philadelphia (29-68-1). It also compares favorably to a smaller yet stylistically similar figure sold at Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2019, lot 881.

Provenance:
Horst Werner Bucholz (1933-2003), Berlin, acquired by 1963
Private German Collection, appraised by Spink & Son, Zurich, L.T.D., 14 May 1974
Galerie de Rhone, 2 June 2007, lot 146
Private Collection, Switzerland

The sculpture was acquired by German actor Horst Werner Bucholz during the filming of Nine Hours to Rama (1963) in which he played the lead. Bucholz also played Chico in The Magnificent Seven (1960).

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