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Property of a Private Manhattan Collection
A Gray Schist Life-Size Head of a Bodhisattva
GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
Details
A Gray Schist Life-Size Head of a Bodhisattva
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Very finely carved with crisply defined features, heavy lidded eyes beneath gently arched brows, pursed lips and moustache, the forehead framed by cascading locks falling from beneath a beaded headband
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Very finely carved with crisply defined features, heavy lidded eyes beneath gently arched brows, pursed lips and moustache, the forehead framed by cascading locks falling from beneath a beaded headband
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, before 1979