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RARE STATUE DE BOUDDHA
SHAKYAMUNI EN SCHISTE GRIS
ANCIENNE REGION DU GANDHARA,
IIEME-IIIEME SIECLE
Il est représenté debout en samabhanga sur un
piédestal orné d’un bodhisattva assis fanqué
d’adorants. Il est vêtu d’une robe monastique. Sa
main droite est en abhayamudra. Son visage est
empreint de sérénité. Un halo est placé derrière sa
tête ; accidents et restaurations.
Hauteur : 125 cm. (49º in.), socle
€100,000-150,000 $120,000-170,000
£89,000-130,000
PROVENANCE
French private collection, acquired in 12 June 1982,
Galerie Ponati, Paris

AN IMPORTANT GREY SCHIST FIGURE OF
BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
ANCIENT GANDHARA REGION, 2ND-3RD
CENTURY
古健陀羅地區 二至三世紀 灰片岩釋迦牟尼佛
立像
來源：法國私人珍藏，於1982年6月12日購自巴
黎古董商Galerie Ponati

With the growing popularity of Mahayana
Buddhism around the second century large
detached images were sculpted alongside
narrative friezes. This fne standing Buddha is
characteristic for the high point of Gandharan art
as represented in the refnement of the carving.
The elegant treatment of the drapery subtly reveals
the underlying physique of his body.

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