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Terracotta head of a bodhisattva

Categories : Religious representations
Title : Terracotta head of a bodhisattva
Signature – Mark - Stamp : No
Technique : Modelled
Main material : Terracotta
Period of creation : 5th century
Country of creation : Pakistan
Condition : Very good
Approximate number of objects : 1
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Jonathan Tucker & Antonia Tozer Jonathan Tucker & Antonia Tozer
(Antique dealer)
37 Bury Street St James's
SW1Y 6AU London - United Kingdom
Tel : 020 7839 3414
Fax number : 020 7839 3415
Email address : asianartresource@aol.com
Website : http://www.asianartresource.co.uk
Time zone : GTM 00:00
spoken languages : Jonathan Tucker & Antonia Tozer
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Measurement Measurement :
Height : 18.50 cm Height : 7.28 in

Description original text :  original text (Automatic translation)
Hadda style terracotta head of a bodhisattva. Northwest Pakistan or Afghanistan. Gandhara, 4th - 5th century AD. A delightful terracotta head of a Bodhisattva wearing an elaborate diadem with pentagonal designs representing gold repoussé plaques above a braided band; the hair in wavy lines, the face well-proportioned and the eyes cast down in meditation, a well-formed nose above a sensitive mouth.

The use of stucco and terracotta as a substitute for the grey schist of many early Gandhara sculptures led to a greater freedom of expression and innovation. For a similar terracotta head from the Robert Ellsworth collection please see fig. 199 in Deborah E. Klimburg-Salter, Buddha in Indien, Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 1995. For a terracotta Bodhisattva head with similar repoussé plaques, see catalogue no. 15 in Treasures from the Silk Road: Devotion, Conquest and Trade along Asia's highways, Spink, 1999.

Description original text :  original text
Hadda style terracotta head of a bodhisattva. Northwest Pakistan or Afghanistan. Gandhara, 4th - 5th century AD. A delightful terracotta head of a Bodhisattva wearing an elaborate diadem with pentagonal designs representing gold repoussé plaques above a braided band; the hair in wavy lines, the face well-proportioned and the eyes cast down in meditation, a well-formed nose above a sensitive mouth.

The use of stucco and terracotta as a substitute for the grey schist of many early Gandhara sculptures led to a greater freedom of expression and innovation. For a similar terracotta head from the Robert Ellsworth collection please see fig. 199 in Deborah E. Klimburg-Salter, Buddha in Indien, Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 1995. For a terracotta Bodhisattva head with similar repoussé plaques, see catalogue no. 15 in Treasures from the Silk Road: Devotion, Conquest and Trade along Asia's highways, Spink, 1999.



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