A black schist fragment with Buddha
A black schist fragment with Buddha

GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY

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A black schist fragment with Buddha
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
With the head of Buddha, eyes downcast, the hair pulled over the ushnisha and secured with a headband, below the fronds of the Bodhi tree carved in the shape of a nimbus, flanked by adoring worshippers
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) wide
Provenance
Hiruma Collection, Japan, 1980s
Literature
T. Kuno, Gandhara Art, 1986, fig. 111

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