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LOT 0406
Gandharan Large Meditating Maitreya Statue
2ND-4TH CENTURY AD
30" (69 kg total, 76cm including stand).
A large schist statue of Maitreya, seated cross-legged in meditation; hair pulled up into a top-knot with fillet decorated with rosettes, large nimbus to the back of the head; elongated ears with earrings, eyes half closed in meditation, recess to brow for separate urna, finely engraved moustache; sash over shoulders, bands of necklaces to chest with amulet cases; armlets and bracelets to both arms; robes hanging over edge of rectangular seat; panel to front of seat decorated with Buddha seated in meditation, two devotees to either side; mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenance
Property of an English collector; previously the property of an Anglo-Indian gentleman; acquired from the Julian Sherrier collection in 1978, supplied with geologic report No. TL004877, by geologic consultant Dr R. L. Bonewitz.
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LOT 0406
Gandharan Large Meditating Maitreya Statue
Sold for (Inc. bp): £30,000
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