ID 922280
Lot 359 | A VERY RARE AND MONUMENTAL GREY SCHIST FIGURE OF A DONOR
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, PROBABLY 4TH CENTURY CE
68 7/8 in. (175 cm.) high
Provenance
Spink & Son, Ltd., London, by 1985.
Important private collection, Japan, by 1990.
Literature
I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. II, Tokyo, 1990, p. 182, fig. 523.
F. Tissot, "The Site of Sahri-Bahlol in Gandhara: part III," South Asian Archaeology 1987, Rome, 1990, pp. 762-63, fig. 19.
A. Quagliotti, "A Gandharan Donor on Sale by Sotheby's New York," East and West, December 2000, p. 528, fig. 7.
M. Akira, Gandharan Art and Bamiyan Site, Tokyo, 2006, p. 115, no. 87.
Exhibited
London, Grosvenor House Fair, 11-21 June 1986.
| Medium: | Schist, Stone |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Statuettes |
| Medium: | Schist, Stone |
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| Place of origin: | India, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Statuettes |
| Address of auction |
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