Lot 111 , A large grey schist Bodhisattva figure, Gandhara, 2nd/3rd century A.D.

A large grey schist Bodhisattva figure, Gandhara, 2nd/3rd century A.D., dressed in a flowing ‘sanghati’ adorned with a torque and necklace, the face with heavy lidded eyes, flanked by pendant earrings, elaborate headdress, backed by nimbus, 73cm high excluding display stand

Provenance - London private collection, formed between early 1940s-1972
£5,000-7,000

Condition:
The figure is fragmentary with incomplete halo, losses to the arms and substantial portion of the legs, more recently there is a section of the background on the left-hand side which has been broken and glued back in position otherwise there’s good definition to the carving.

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