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PROPERTY FROM A EUROPEAN CORPORATE
COLLECTION
A MAGNIFICENT AND
MONUMENTAL GREY SCHIST
FIGURE OF STANDING BUDDHA
Ancient region of Gandhara, Kushan
period, 2nd/3rd Century

the monumental image of Buddha in high relief
standing in a slightly ! exed pose, his > nely
pleated sanghati draped around his shoulders
forming a scooped collar, one looped end held in
his lowered left hand, the perfectly proportioned
oval face with downcast eyes carved beneath
long, arched eyebrows, high-bridged nose,
pursed lips, his forehead bearing an urna, his hair
swept back in rippled strands radiating from the
center of his forehead and drawn over a dome-
shaped ushnisha
Height: 62 in. (157.5 cm)
PROVENANCE
Private Italian Collection, 1976.
Sotheby’s New York, 24 March 2004, lot 12.
$ 1,000,000-1,500,000

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