A GRAY SCHIST STAIR-RISER RELIEF OF A MYTHICAL BEAST
GANDHARAN MASTERPIECES FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION
古犍陀羅 三/四世紀 灰片岩雕瑞獸梯斜梁

ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD-4TH CENTURY CE

細節
古犍陀羅 三/四世紀 灰片岩雕瑞獸梯斜梁
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) high; 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) wide
來源
私人珍藏,日本,1990年前(傳)。
重要私人珍藏,日本,不晚於1990年。
出版
栗田功,《ガンダーラ美術〈II〉仏陀の世界》,東京,1990年,頁247,圖745。

拍品專文

This triangular relief likely once decorated the interior panel of the steps leading up to a stupa base. The subject, a mythical beast resembling a plump cockerel, suggests Hellenistic or Scythian influence and speaks to the intermixing of Indo-Greek and Indo-Scythian peoples in the Buddhist region of Gandhara. For a diagram replicating a riser’s placement at a stupa and a further discussion, see K. Behrendt, The Art of Gandhara, 2007, p. 27, fig. II. A comparable pair of stair risers, including a similarly depicted mythical cockerel, was sold at Christie’s New York on 12 September 2012, lot 517.

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