Lot Essay
With his full lips and elongated ears, this head could easily be mistaken for that of a Buddha but for the absence of the ushnisha, or cranial bump.
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INDIA, UTTAR PRADESH, MATHURA, GUPTA PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY
Details
A red sandstone head of a Jina
India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, Gupta period, 3rd century
Sensitively carved with gentle features, full lips, rounded cheeks and heavy-lidded eyes, his hair in curls
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high
India, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, Gupta period, 3rd century
Sensitively carved with gentle features, full lips, rounded cheeks and heavy-lidded eyes, his hair in curls
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high
Provenance
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired before 1983
Literature
Pratapaditya Pal, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, 1997, p. 162 and 320, cat. no. 214
Exhibited
On loan to Art Institute of Chicago since 1983