Gandharan Dish with Female Anguiped

20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER

3 1/8 in. (4 3/4 in.) (112 grams total, 80 mm (205 grams total, 12 cm high including stand)).

Carved steatite with mural border, central anguiped with collar, armrings, bracelets and hair decorations; rimm stepped to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

Ex London gallery stock.

Literature

Cf. similar in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession no.1987.142.41 (Samuel Eilenberg Collection).

CONDITION

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LOT 2170