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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2023 Jun 12 @ 23:55UTC-7 : PDT/MST
A Large Grey Schist Figure of a Standing BuddhaGandhara, 2nd / 3rd Century.Superbly, carved standing on a plinth with worshippers flanking a stupa, wearing voluminous robes with cascading fold, his left hand lowered, his face in benevolent expression woth crisply delineated features and elongated earlobes, his hair arranged in fine locks rising over the ushnisha, his face backed by a smooth nimbus.With the growing popularity of Mahayana Buddhism around the 2nd century, large detached images were sculpted alongside narrative friezes. This is surely excited sculpture of a standing Buddha is characteristic for high point if ghandhran art, among the very best in terms of refinement in carving and in an excellent state of preservation. Buddha wears monastic garments, very elegantly draped across both shoulders, wrapped around the arms and revealing further undergarments. The fingers of the pendant left hand are very finely carved and polished, as are the facial features. The undulating strands of hair and curls of top knot are extremely finely detailed.Height 88 CM;
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6118 Cottam Road, Port Alberni, British Columbia, V9Y 8R9, Canada
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