A WHITE MARBLE HEAD OF A BODHISATTVA, KINGDOM OF GANDHARA Published: Stephen Little, Images of Buddha from the Michael Phillips Collection, Arts of Asia, January-February 2013, page 105, no. 8.

Shahi period, 5^th-7^th century. The face, turned to one side, beautifully carved with a serene expression, downcast eyes, an aquiline nose, flanked by two elongated earlobes, the hair in neatly elaborated curls, a distinct spiral-form ushnisha above the forehead.

Provenance: Art Ancient Ltd., United Kingdom, 2010. Michael Phillips, acquired from the above. Michael Phillips (born 1943) is an Academy Award-winning film producer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, his parents were Lawrence and Shirley Phillips, noted New York dealers in Asian fine arts, selling to the Met, the LACMA, the Chicago Art Institute, and the British Museum among others. Michael Phillips is a collector of Asian art himself, particularly Indian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan sculpture. His most important films include The Sting (winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1973), Taxi Driver (winning the Palme D'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival), and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive old wear, signs of weathering and erosion, some losses, small nicks and cracks, minor surface scratches, soil encrustations.

Weight: 1,266 g (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 12.7 cm (excl. stand) and 15.8 cm (incl. stand)

Mounted to a modern metal stand. (2)

Expert's note: Relatively few sculptures survived from the Shahi period, mostly those made from marble. Both the turned head and the large, spiral-shaped ushnisha above the forehead are notable features also found in the contemporaneous Greco-Buddhist stucco bodhisattvas from Hadda.

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犍陀羅白色大理石菩薩頭像
沙希，五至七世紀。菩薩的臉偏向一側，雕刻精美，表情安祥平靜，眼睛微閉，鼻子高挺，長耳垂，頭髮捲曲分明，額前有一螺旋形髮髻。

出版： Stephen Little，〈Images of Buddha from the Michael Phillips Collection〉，《Arts of Asia》， 2013年1月至2月，頁105，編號8。

來源：英國Art Ancient Ltd.藝廊，2010年；Michael Phillips 購於上述藝廊。Michael Phillips (出生於1943年) 是一位電影製片人，曾獲得奧斯卡獎。他出生在紐約布魯克林，父母是Lawrence 與Shirley Phillips，他們是著名的紐約亞洲美術經銷商，向大都會博物館、洛杉磯美術館、芝加哥藝術學院和大英博物館等機構出售藝術品。Michael Phillips本人是亞洲藝術收藏家，尤其是印度、東南亞和喜馬拉雅地區造像。他最重要的電影包括《騙中騙》（1973 年獲得奧斯卡最佳影片獎）、《出租車司機》（1976 年戛納電影節金棕櫚獎）和史蒂文·斯皮爾伯格的《第三類接觸》。
品相：狀況良好，大面積磨損、風化和侵蝕，一些缺損、小刻痕和裂縫，輕微的表面劃痕。

重量：1,266 g (含底座)
尺寸：高12.7 厘米 (不含底座) and 15.8 厘米 (含底座)

現代金屬支架。

專家注釋：沙希時期倖存下來的造像相對較少，主要是大理石製成的。轉頭和額頭上方的螺旋形髮髻都是同時期的哈達希臘佛教灰泥菩薩的顯著特徵。