Lot Essay
This is a superb example of stucco sculpture with delicately and crisply modeled features. The face retains a smoothly polished surface.
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GANDHARA, 3RD/4TH CENTURY
Details
A stucco head of Buddha
Gandhara, 3rd/4th century
Very finely modeled in a serene expression with a bow-shaped mouth and aquiline nose, the heavy-lidded almond-shaped eyes cast downwards, his hair arranged in wavy locks drawn over the ushnisha, with traces of polychromy remaining
11½ in. (29 cm.) high
Gandhara, 3rd/4th century
Very finely modeled in a serene expression with a bow-shaped mouth and aquiline nose, the heavy-lidded almond-shaped eyes cast downwards, his hair arranged in wavy locks drawn over the ushnisha, with traces of polychromy remaining
11½ in. (29 cm.) high
Provenance
American Collection, 1990s