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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
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Email address : asianartresource@aol.com
Website : http://www.asianartresource.co.uk
Time zone : GTM 00:00
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Asking price :
price on application
Measurement :
| Height : 18.50 cm |
Height : 7.28 in |
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.
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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