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LOT 2390
Gandharan Terracotta Head
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/8 in. (292 grams total, 13.1 cm including stand).
With wavy hair and large lentoid eyes, rounded facial features; mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenance
Acquired in the London art market.
Private collection, 1970s.
Literature
Cf. Jongeward, D., Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018, item 55, for type.
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