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A GRAY SCHIST RELIEF WITH SCENES OF THE HUNT
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD-4TH CENTURY CE
7¡ in. (18.7 cm.) high; 29¿ in. (74 cm.) wide
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Japan, before 1990.
Important private collection, Japan, by 1990.
LITERATURE:
I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. II, Tokyo, 1990, p. 224, fig. 663.
M. Akira, Gandharan Art and Bamiyan Site, Tokyo, 2006, p. 107, no. 78.
This decorative frieze illustrates a hunting scene with archers drawing their
bows at a lion and lioness. Panels of the hunt, a popular noble sport, were a
common fixture in Gandharan iconography. Compare the present relief with
a pair of hunting scenes in the British Museum, illustrated by W. Zwalf in A
Catalogue of the Gandhāra Sculpture in the British Museum, London, 1996,
nos. 315 & 317.
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