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610
A RARE GRAY SCHIST CAPITAL
DEPICTING A BODHISATTVA
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA,
3RD-4TH CENTURY CE
35¿ in. (89.2 cm.) wide
$50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Japan, before 1990.
Important private collection, Japan, by 1990.
LITERATURE:
I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. II, Tokyo, 1990,
p. 216, fig. 633.

Lots 610 and 611, Indo-Corinthian capitals, once
crowned columns and pilasters at important
monuments, stupas, and temples. The present
examples both present Buddhist figures, a bodhisattva
and a devotee, interspersed within lush Corinthian-
style foliate. A similar capital to lot 610, showing a
Buddha with his hand raised in abhaya mudra in the
collection of the British Museum is illustrated by W.
Zwalf in A Catalogue of the Gandhāra Sculpture in the
British Museum, London, 1996, no. 457. See, also, a
capital in the Walters Art Museum (acc. no. 25.48),
presenting a yakshi or nature spirit in similar scale to
lot 611.

611
A RARE GRAY SCHIST CAPITAL DEPICTING
A DEVOTEE WITH AN OFFERING
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA,
3RD-4TH CENTURY CE
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high; 22 in. (55.9 cm.) wide
$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Europe, before 1990.
Important private collection, Japan, by 1990.
LITERATURE:
I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. II, Tokyo, 1990,
p. 217, fig. 636
M. Akira, Gandharan Art and Bamiyan Site, Tokyo, 2006,
p. 112, fig. 83

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