Indian and Southeast Asian Art

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Lot 9
  • 9

Head of Buddha Terracotta Gandhara

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Description

  • Head of Buddha
  • Terracotta
  • height 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm.)
The sensitively modeled face of the Buddha with a benign expression, his large heavy-lidded eyes set beneath finely arched eyebrows, his bow-shaped lips curved in a slight smile, his hair radiating in wavy curls from the center of his broad forehead and gathered over a large bun-shaped ushnisha.

Catalogue Note

Compare the shape of the face and the idealized treatment of the features with the head of a Goddess; see Sotheby's New York, March 26, 2003, lot 10.