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Indo-Corinthian capitals, such as the present lot, once crowned columns and
pilasters at important monuments, stupas, and temples. The present example
presents a bodhisattva interspersed within lush Corinthian-style foliage. A
similar captal, showing a Buddha with his hand raised in abhayamud rain the
collection of the British Museum (acc. no. 1880.357) is illustrated by W. Zwalf
in A Catalogue of the Gandhara Sculpture in the British Museum, London, 1996,
no. 457. See also, an Indo-Corinthian capital sold at Christie's New York, 23
September 2020, lot 611, for $25,000.

Cover and illustration from I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. II, Tokyo, 1990, p. 216.