Bodhisattva Bust Schist Gandhara region,... - Lot 538 - Lynda Trouvé

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Bodhisattva Bust Schist Gandhara region,... - Lot 538 - Lynda Trouvé
Bodhisattva Bust Schist Gandhara region, present-day Pakistan, 3rd - 4th century Total height : 63 cm. (Old restoration to the nose). Gandhara is a region located between Peshawar, the Swat valley and Taxila in the northwest of Pakistan, conquered in 330 BC by Alexander the Great who introduced the Hellenistic style which had a major influence on the statuary art of this region for more than seven centuries. During this period the Gandhara region was very prosperous, benefiting from a key location on the silk trade routes. During the Kushan dynasty, many Buddhist sites were created in the region, most of them organized around a monastery and a stupa decorated with narrative reliefs describing the life of the Buddha. From the beginning of the 3rd century, devotional representations of the Buddha and boddhisattvas gradually appeared, and these non-narrative sculptures evolved into monumental representations in the 4th century. This fine example of Gandharan schist statuary known as "Greco-Buddhist" depicts a Bodhisattva wearing an elaborate bun, adorned with numerous jewels on his headdress and his delicate half-naked torso. He is dressed in a long cloth covering his legs and rising to his left shoulder, the beautiful pleating of which is finely sculpted.
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