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LOT 0453

Sold for (Inc. bp): £260

GANDHARAN TERRACOTTA HEAD
2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (307 grams total, 98 mm including stand).

Modelled in the round with fleshy facial features, arched brows, long earlobes, ushishna above; mounted on a custom-made stand.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired on the London art market.
Private collection, 1970s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Jongeward, D., Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018, item 91, for type.

CONDITION
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