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THE PROPERTY OF DOROTHY AND RICHARD SHERWOOD

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A BUFF SANDSTONE CORNER RELIEF OF A RAKSHASA
CENTRAL INDIA, GUPTA PERIOD, 5TH-6TH CENTURY
7Ω in. (19 cm.) high, 8√ in. (22.5 cm.) wide, 7 in. (17.8 cm.) deep

$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE
The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, New York.
The Pan-Asian Collection (Christian Humann), by 1978.
Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, New York, by 1982.
The Pan-Asian Collection; Sotheby’s New York, 5 October 1990, lot 11.
EXHIBITED
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition
and Its Infuence,” 24 March - 6 May 1979.
On Loan to the Denver Museum of Art (60.1977), by 1982.
LITERATURE
P. Pal, The Ideal Image: the Gupta Sculptural Tradition and its Infuence,
New York, 1978, no. 32
A. N. Heeramaneck, Masterpieces of Indian Sculpture, From the Former
Collections of Nasli M. Heeramaneck, Verona, 1979, no. 38.

P. Pal, The Ideal Image: the Gupta Sculptural Tradition and its Infuence, New York, 1978,
cover and no. 32.

A. N. Heeramaneck, Masterpieces of Indian Sculpture, From the Former Collections of
Nasli M. Heeramaneck, Verona, 1979, cover and no. 38.

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