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A BRONZE INLAID MARBLE HEAD OF A BEARDED MAN 鑲銅大理石男性頭像
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY 犍陀羅，約三世紀
31 cm (12 1/4 in.) high 高31釐米（12 1/4英吋）
HK$650,000 - 750,000 650,000 - 750,000 港元
His mouth agape, deeply furrowed brows frame the man’s bronze- 此像刻劃一位男性眉頭深鎖，嘴巴微張，眼部鑲銅。蓬亂的頭髮與整
inlaid eyes. His disheveled hair contrasts the perfectly kept spirals of 潔捲曲的鬍鬚形成對比，八字鬍如波紋下垂至下巴。作品帶有有明顯
his beard and his mustache rippling down to his jaw. With marked 的現實主義色彩，比尋常犍陀羅造像更加生動。
realism, this head is suffused with a degree of animated portraiture
rarely seen in Gandharan sculpture. 比照大都會藝術博物館的一尊酒神狄俄尼索斯赤陶頭像，（參見
Behrendt，《犍陀羅藝術》，紐約，2007年，頁67，51號），以及
Compare a terracotta head of Dionysus in the Metropolitan Museum 大英博物館的老人與勇士灰泥頭像（參見Zwalf，《犍陀羅雕塑》，
of Art (Behrendt, Art of Gandhara, New York, 2007, p.67, no.51). 倫敦，1990年，頁326-27，編號621和622）。類似大鬍子的造型在
Also compare two stucco heads identified as old man and a warrior 犍陀羅的阿特拉斯造像上也常見，參見同上，頁208-10、216，編號
in the British Museum (Zwalf, Gandharan Sculpture, London, 1990, 362-64、366和377。
pp.326-27, nos.621 & 622). Sculptures with similarly substantial
beards are also common to Gandharan Atlantes, see ibid, pp.208- 來源
10, 216, nos.362-64, 366 & 377. Elisabeth Coebergh，荷蘭，1980-2003年
John Eskenazi Ltd，倫敦，2014年
Provenance Elizabeth與Willard Clark夫婦收藏，加州
Elisabeth Coebergh, Netherlands, 1980-2003
John Eskenazi Ltd, London, 2014
Elizabeth and Willard Clark Collection, California
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