ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD-4TH CENTURY CE

Indo-Corinthian capitals, such as the present lot, once crowned columns and pilasters at important monuments, stupas, and temples. The present example presents a bodhisattva interspersed within lush Corinthian-style foliage. A similar captal, showing a Buddha with his hand raised in abhayamudra in the collection of the British Museum (acc. no. 1880.357) is illustrated by W. Zwalf in A Catalogue of the Gandhara Sculpture in the British Museum, London, 1996, no. 457. See also, an Indo-Corinthian capital sold at Christie's New York, 23 September 2020, lot 611, for $25,000.