GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY

细节

A gray schist stupa relief with garland bearers
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd century
With two attendants bearing an undulating wreath with pendant fruit and two thickly plumed birds with outstretched wings
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) wide

来源

Private collection, Japan, before 1990

出版

I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. II, 1990, p. 222, fig. 658

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拍品专文

These lush garlands are frequently featured in the Jataka tales, in which the Buddha has been previously incarnated as a bird, didactically reinforcing the Buddhist approach to the interconnectivity of all sentient beings.