Sale 8962
New York, Park Avenue
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17 September 1998
Price realised
USD 4,370
Estimate
A small gray schist carving of a Bodhisattva Gandhara, 3rd Century The plaque finely carved in openwork relief with a Bodhisattva seated in lalitasana, with his head turned to the side resting against the outstretched index finger of his right hand, in a pensive mood holding the stem of a large lotus bud in his left hand and wearing a finely pleated robe and beaded necklaces 4 in. (10 cm.) high
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For a small carving of a contemplative Bodhisattva in the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, cf. M. Lerner and S. Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent, Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, 1991, cat. no. 80.
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