GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY

Putti with garlands of this type, borrowed along with other popular gods from Western antiquity, would typically form a continuous frieze; for fragments of similarly carved examples, see I. Kurita, Gandharan Art, vol. II, 2003, p.223, figs. 661-62; and National Museum of Art Osaka, The Exhibition of Gandhara Art of Pakistan, 1984, p. 71, fig. IV-3.