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A CARNELIAN FIGURE OF BUDDHA ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND-5TH CENTURY image 1
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Lot 1038

A CARNELIAN FIGURE OF BUDDHA
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND-5TH CENTURY

Images of Devotion
2 December 2021, 19:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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A CARNELIAN FIGURE OF BUDDHA

ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND-5TH CENTURY
3 cm (1 1/8 in.) high

Footnotes

犍陀羅 二至五世紀 紅玉髓佛陀像

The heavy robe's stylized folds and the thin circlet securing the locks over the ushinisha follow stylistic conventions of Buddha images from the Ancient Region of Gandhara, and in particular the Swat Valley. For example, compare a turban cockade with a small figure of seated Buddha in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Jongeward, Buddhist Art of Gandhara, 2018, p.103, no.72) and a Swat stele published in Luczanits (ed.), Gandhara, 2008, p.237, no.183.

Provenance:
Private Collection, United Kingdom

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