A red sandstone head of a Jina

INDIA, UTTAR PRADESH, MATHURA, GUPTA PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY

細節

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

來源

The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, acquired before 1983

出版

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

展覽

On loan to Art Institute of Chicago since 1983

拍品專文

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.