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A SCHIST PANEL WITH A BACCHANALIAN SCENE A KUSHAN MOTTLED RED SANDSTONE VOTIVE IMAGE OF
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY SURYA
8 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (22 x 21 cm) MATHURA, KUSHAN PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY
11 1/4 in. (28.7 cm) high
$5,000 - 7,000
$2,000 - 3,000
犍陀羅 二/三世紀 片岩享樂圖石碑
秣菟羅 貴霜王朝 約二世紀 紅砂岩太陽神還願像
Another Bacchanalian scene in the Central Museum, Lahore similarly
depicting a woman offering a cup to a burly, bearded man rising from The sun god squats in his celestial chariot pulled by four horses.
his day bed is published in Luczanits, Gandhara: Das Buddhistische He wields a mace and a dagger, iconography used to depict Surya
erbe Pakistans, Mainz, 2008, p.100, no.35. in Kushana sculpture. A sculpture of the deity in the Government
Museum, Mathura shows him with the same pose and implements
Provenance (Sharma, The Splendour of Mathura Art & Museum, New Delhi, 1994,
Sotheby’s, New York, 21 September 1995, lot 231 pl.XIII). The stele’s naïve carving is characteristic of Kushana Mathuran
The Estate of Benjamin M. Rice II, New York votive images. Compare, for example, one of Lakshmi also in the
Government Museum, Mathura (ibid., p.112, fig.37).

Provenance
Sotheby’s, New York, 20 March 1997, lot 273
The Estate of Benjamin M. Rice II, New York

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