Details
A VERY RARE AND MONUMENTAL GREY SCHIST FIGURE OF A DONOR
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.
Details
A VERY RARE AND MONUMENTAL GREY SCHIST FIGURE OF A DONOR
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.
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