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A Gandharan Terracotta Buddha Head

Currency:USD Category:Antiquities / Far East Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
A Gandharan Terracotta Buddha Head

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Auction Date:2012 Sep 14 @ 10:00 (UTC-6 : CST/MDT)
Location:P.O. Box 714, Erie, Colorado, 80516, United States
3rd century Century AD. Clay sculpture with a small urna wide arching brows over; heavily lidded downcast eyes, aristocratic year aquiline nose above a well-defined mouth full with a slight archaic smile, the hair pulled back withan extending ushinisha . 4-1/2"Hx 3-5/8"D, fragmentary, as shown. Custom stand.

Provenance: Ex-prominent New York City dealer.

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So-called Gandharan Sculpture was produced in parts of modern-day India, Pakistan and Afghanistan from the first century A.D. In the second century B.C. these areas were ruled by the Graeco-Bactrians, the farthest flung people of the Greek World, who brought with them the beautiful Hellenistic Greek Artistic tradition. This tradition became incorporated into the art of the region, resulting in a kind of "Graeco-Buddhist" Art from the 1st to the 3rd Centuries A.D., persisting for centuries later.

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