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A SCHIST PANEL WITH A BODHISATTVA BEING VENERATED
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY
9 7/8 x 9 3/4 in. (25 x 24.8 cm)
$3,000 - 5,000
犍陀羅 約三世紀 片岩尊禮菩薩圖石碑

This handsome panel depicts a large, lotus-borne, seated bodhisattva
being revered by male and female Buddhist patrons in Gandharan
dress. The composition is repeated in another panel published in
Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol.2, Tokyo, 1990, p.59, no.145.

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

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A SCHIST HARMIKA BLOCK WITH BUDDHA BEING
VENERATED
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (12 x 21 x 21 cm)

$3,000 - 5,000
犍陀羅 二/三世紀 片岩佛陀受拜圖平頭柱

This rectangular block is carved on all sides with depictions of
Buddha—and in one instance a bodhisattva—being venerated by
followers. The carving is very similar in style and subject to a panel
published in Ingholt, Gandharan Art in Pakistan, New York, 1959,
no.243. The block would have formed the base of the harmika section
of a small stupa, positioned immediately above the stupa’s drum.
Another harmika block with different subject matter, but of similar scale
is published in Jongeward, Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford, 2019, p.52, 23A-D.

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

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