Two Schist Dishes

GANDHARA, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY

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Two Schist Dishes
Gandhara, circa 2nd Century
One of green schist carved with a horse-headed sea monster above two quartered compartments, incised with lotus petals on the reverse; the other gray schist divided into five compartments in a cross-shaped configuration with petal ornaments
4 7/8 in. and 6 in. (12.3 and 15.2 cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

For another dish featuring a sea monster, see M. Lerner and S. Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent, 1991, cat. no. 21, p. 62f., and p. 60f. for a discussion of the possible use of these dishes that are mainly indigenous to the Gandharan region.

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