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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 Fragment
2nd-4th century A.D.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £180
Modelled in the round with transverse band to the brow, almond-shaped eyes with prominent eyelids, smiling lips; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 365 grams total, 14.6 cm including stand
Acquired on the London art market. Private collection, 1970s. -
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Each of the three vessels of carinated form and displaying repainted polychrome geometric and zoomorphic motifs within panels; including one cup with a D-shaped handle. 402 grams total, 65-94 mm
Acquired in England in the 2000s. Ex Everitt collection, acquired by descent 2017. -
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3rd millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £130
Each a zebu with hump to the shoulders and dewlap beneath the neck. 313 grams total, 78-88 mm
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.
