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A Gray Schist Head of a Female*
Lot 8Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Gray Schist Head of a Female*

GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY

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A Gray Schist Head of a Female*
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Finely carved with a humorous expression, the rounded face framed by an elaborate braided coif
8¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Colonel M.C. Cooke-Collis
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1913 (13.96.9)

Specialist note

This is likely the head of a figure of Hariti, compare with H. Ingolt, Gandharan Art in Pakistan, 1957, fig. II,3, p. 34.