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LOT 0453
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.
ProvenanceAcquired on the London art market.
Private collection, 1970s.
Cf. Jongeward, D., Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018, item 91, for type.
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