A highly important and rare bronze figure of Buddha
GANDHARA, 6TH/7TH CENTURY
A highly important and rare bronze figure of Buddha Gandhara, 6th/7th century Standing with his right hand raised in abhayamudra and the left hanging at his side, dressed in a billowing robe draped over both shoulders, the face with full lips and heavy-lidded eyes with the locks of hair pulled up and tied in a topknot, backed by a combined nimbus and aureole with a band of flying geese, the two at the top with a strand of jewels issuing from their mouths, surrounded by foliate bands, all within a border of radiating spokes 14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high
A highly important and rare bronze figure of Buddha
GANDHARA, 6TH/7TH CENTURY
A highly important and rare bronze figure of Buddha Gandhara, 6th/7th century Standing with his right hand raised in abhayamudra and the left hanging at his side, dressed in a billowing robe draped over both shoulders, the face with full lips and heavy-lidded eyes with the locks of hair pulled up and tied in a topknot, backed by a combined nimbus and aureole with a band of flying geese, the two at the top with a strand of jewels issuing from their mouths, surrounded by foliate bands, all within a border of radiating spokes 14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high
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