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Property from a Private Massachusetts Collection
A gray schist figure of Maitreya and a relief
GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY
Details
A gray schist figure of Maitreya and a relief
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Maitreya seated with his hands folded in his lap, the pendant water flask hanging from between his fingers, dressed in a sanghati and adorned with various necklaces, the face surmounted by a turban centered by a lotus tiara, backed by a nimbus; the relief with a figure with an offering standing within a niche with lattice patterning and pendant fruit flanked by columns
10½ in. (26.7 cm.), Maitreya (2)
Gandhara, 2nd/3rd Century
Maitreya seated with his hands folded in his lap, the pendant water flask hanging from between his fingers, dressed in a sanghati and adorned with various necklaces, the face surmounted by a turban centered by a lotus tiara, backed by a nimbus; the relief with a figure with an offering standing within a niche with lattice patterning and pendant fruit flanked by columns
10½ in. (26.7 cm.), Maitreya (2)
Provenance
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Nicholas Stark Pickard, Kansas, before 1993
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