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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
A Large Gray Schist Frieze of Bodhisattvas
GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
Details
A Large Gray Schist Frieze of Bodhisattvas
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Well-carved with the seated Bhodisattvas and attendants in various attitudes, with further figures in adoration and birds perched in the arches, above a saw-toothed border, the niches with lion-head capitals supported by female caryatides
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) wide
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Well-carved with the seated Bhodisattvas and attendants in various attitudes, with further figures in adoration and birds perched in the arches, above a saw-toothed border, the niches with lion-head capitals supported by female caryatides
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
Private Collection, New York, 1970s