STATUE DE BOUDDHA EN SCHISTEANCIENNE RÉGION DU GANDHARA, IIIE/IVE SIÈCLE58 cm (22 7/8 in.) highProvenance: A SCHIST FIGURE OF BUDDHAANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD/4TH CENTURY犍陀羅 三/四世紀 片岩佛陀像Published:Isao Kurita,Gandharan Art, Vol. II, Tokyo, 1998 & 2003, p. 103, no. 274.Provenance:With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970sThis sculpture of Shakyamuni sits invajrasana over a cloth draped platform with his right hand raised inabhaya mudra and the left hand grasping the gathered folds of his delicately pleatedsanghati. His face is sensitively modeled with open eyes, rounded cheeks, and a small mouth. The even rows of wavy hair converging onto a single point right above his forehead give form to his heart-shaped profile.pare with two other seated Buddhas in the British Museum, published in Zwalf,Gandharan Sculpture, 1996, pp. 21 & 27, nos. 23 & 33, that share the same platform and hair style, respectively.