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GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
Details
A gray schist relief
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd century
Well-carved with the panel divided into two architectural niches, each with a Buddha seated over a double-lotus base with hands clasped together and curled hair pulled over the ushnishas, each flanked by kneeling worshippers with their hands folded at their chests, the niches separated by a stepped column and with a sawtooth border at top
9 x 17½ in. (22.9 x 44.5 cm.)
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd century
Well-carved with the panel divided into two architectural niches, each with a Buddha seated over a double-lotus base with hands clasped together and curled hair pulled over the ushnishas, each flanked by kneeling worshippers with their hands folded at their chests, the niches separated by a stepped column and with a sawtooth border at top
9 x 17½ in. (22.9 x 44.5 cm.)
Provenance
Japanese Collection, acquired in the 1990s