A BRONZE INLAID MARBLE HEAD OF A BEARDED MAN


ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY31 cm (12 1/4 in.) high
|His mouth agape, deeply furrowed brows frame the man's bronze-inlaid eyes. His disheveled hair contrasts the perfectly kept spirals of his beard and his mustache rippling down to his jaw. With marked realism, this head is suffused with a degree of animated portraiture rarely seen in Gandharan sculpture.   Compare a terracotta head of Dionysus in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Behrendt, Art of Gandhara, New York, 2007, p.67, no.51). Also compare two stucco heads identified as old man and a warrior in the British Museum (Zwalf, Gandharan Sculpture, London, 1990, pp.326-27, nos.621 & 622). Sculptures with similarly substantial beards are also common to Gandharan Atlantes, see ibid, pp.208-10, 216, nos.362-64, 366 & 377.   Provenance Elisabeth Coebergh, Netherlands, 1980-2003 John Eskenazi Ltd, London, 2014 Elizabeth and Willard Clark Collection, California 鑲銅大理石男性頭像 犍陀羅，約三世紀 高31釐米（12 1/4英吋） 650,000-750,000港元  此像刻劃一位男性眉頭深鎖，嘴巴微張，眼部鑲銅。蓬亂的頭髮與整潔捲曲的鬍鬚形成對比，八字鬍如波紋下垂至下巴。作品帶有有明顯的現實主義色彩，比尋常犍陀羅造像更加生動。 比照大都會藝術博物館的一尊酒神狄俄尼索斯赤陶頭像，（參見Behrendt，《犍陀羅藝術》，紐約，2007年，頁67，51號），以及大英博物館的老人與勇士灰泥頭像（參見Zwalf，《犍陀羅雕塑》，倫敦，1990年，頁326-27，編號621和622）。類似大鬍子的造型在犍陀羅的阿特拉斯造像上也常見，參見同上，頁208-10、216，編號362-64、366和377。   來源 Elisabeth Coebergh，荷蘭，1980-2003年 John Eskenazi Ltd，倫敦，2014年Elizabeth與Willard Clark夫婦收藏，加州