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Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Gray Schist figure of Buddha
GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
Details
A Gray Schist figure of Buddha
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Standing on a plinth, the body draped in a diaphanous robe with thin pleats falling in graceful curves, the rounded face with heavy-lidded eyes and a raised urna surmounted by an ushnisha
38¼ in. (97.2 cm). high
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Standing on a plinth, the body draped in a diaphanous robe with thin pleats falling in graceful curves, the rounded face with heavy-lidded eyes and a raised urna surmounted by an ushnisha
38¼ in. (97.2 cm). high
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Paul E. Manheim, 1966 (66.156.2)