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LOT 0449
Gandharan Terracotta Head
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/4 in. (197 grams total, 10.7 cm including stand).
Modelled in the round as a head of a Bodhisattva with hair in cascading curls, long earlobes, rounded fleshy face with scaphoid eyes; mounted on a custom-made stand.
ProvenanceAcquired on the London art market.
Private collection, 1970s.
Cf. Jongeward, D., Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018, item 83, for type.
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LOT 0449
Gandharan Terracotta Head
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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Gandharan Terracotta Head
2nd-4th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £180
Modelled in the round with the hair pulled around the ushnisha top-knot, slender arching eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes with prominent eyelids, pursed lips; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 661 grams total, 20 cm high including stand
Acquired on the London art market. Private collection, 1970s. -
Mughal Drawing of a Princess with Peacocks
Circa 1780-1800 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £140
Rectangular card with inked border and reveal, liquid gold border with flower and tendril motif to each corner; detailed scene with a princess in the foreground advancing left but looking right towards three peacocks following her; in each of her hands a cord with a bell; waterway extending from centre to right edge and returning across lower edge, with waterlilies and other vegetation, swans (right) and ducks (top); to the rear, a group of trees, and another at right beyond the waterway; at the middle top, trees, rocky hills and a city in the distance; liquid gold to the princess's outer garments, black ink outline to her hair and face. 19 grams, 26.2 x 21 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Scottish private collection. -
Indus Valley and Other Terracotta Vessel Group
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Including a trumpet-shaped funnel, a squat jar with painted concentric circles to the shoulder and a vessel with flared rim and triangular hood with applied ropework decoration. 680 grams total 9.3-11.1 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
