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TWO SCHIST RELIEFS WITH BUDDHA AND A DONOR FIGURE
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
Capital: 5 3/4 x 10 in. (14.7 x 25.5 cm)
Donor: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)
$2,000 - 3,000

犍陀羅 二/三世紀 片岩佛陀石碑及供養人石碑

Both pieces are well carved. The capital features a haloed bust of
Buddha surrounded by curling acanthus leaves. The false bracket
shows a donor with his hands in reverence. The capital compares
favorably to others published in Sun & He, A History of Gandhara
Civilization, Beijing, 2009, p.52, no.1-25, and sold at Bonhams,
New York, 18 September 2013, lot 54. The false bracket compares
favorably to another published in Ingholt, Gandharan Art in Pakistan,
New York, 1959, no.475. Another carved in similar green schist is in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2001.736).

Provenance
The Estate of Benjamin M. Rice II, New York, by 1998
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TWO CARVED SCHIST BUDDHIST PANELS
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
Lobed panel: 8 x 12.5 in. (20.4 x 32 cm), irregular;
Attendant panel: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 (14 x 27 cm)
$1,000 - 1,500

犍陀羅 二/三世紀 片岩佛教題材石碑 共二件

The first panel neatly arranges a haloed devotee kneeling in reverence
between two pillars underneath a chaitya arch with grape clusters.
Compare with panels depicting the same niches and similar supporting
pillars in the British Museum (Zwalf, Gandharan Sculpture, London,
1990, pp. 226-7, nos.401-4.)

In the second panel, a vertical border with niched putti divide two
scenes. The left depicts an old sage with a cane, possibly Kashyapa,
paying homage to Buddha. Another panel with this scene was sold
at Sotheby’s, New York, 16 & 17 September, lot 3. The scene on the
right likely formed part of a depiction of a celestial paradise and shows
811 a bodhisattva seated above a wicker stool facing right and other
buddhas and bodhisattvas looking on from behind.

Provenance
Sotheby’s, New York, 2 June 1992, lot 267 (the panel with
an old sage only)
The Estate of Benjamin M. Rice II, New York

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A SCHIST PANEL WITH THE BUDDHA AND MAITREYA
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
4 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (11.5 x 26 cm)
$1,000 - 1,500
犍陀羅 二/三世紀 片岩佛陀與彌勒菩薩石碑

This charming panel depicts niched alternating images of Buddha
seated and standing either side of the Future Buddha, Maitreya holding
his diagnostic water pot.

Provenance
The Estate of Benjamin M. Rice II, New York, by 1998
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