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GANDHARAN MASTERPIECES FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION
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A GRAY SCHIST RELIEF DEPICTING THE The present relief, with its depiction of Buddha Shakyamuni touching the
BUDDHA'S FIRST SERMON wheel above two recumbent deer, represents the Buddha's first sermon in
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD-4TH CENTURY CE the deer park at Sarnath, when he was said to have first turned the wheel of
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high; 17¡ in. (44.1 cm.) wide the law (dharmachakra). He is surrounded in the present relief with attentive
disciples and ethereal apsaras.
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Europe, by 1988, by repute.
Important private collection, Japan, by 1990.
LITERATURE:
I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 138, P3-II.
古犍陀羅 三/四世紀 灰片岩雕釋迦牟尼佛像
來源:
私人珍藏，歐洲，不晚於1988年（傳）。
重要私人珍藏，日本，不晚於1990年。
出版:
栗田功，《ガンダーラ美術〈I〉仏伝》，東京，1988年，頁138，圖P3-II。
Cover and illustration from I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. I, Tokyo, 1988, p. 138.
