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Property from the David R. Nalin Collection

A gray schist panel of forest ascetics and dragons, Ancient Region of Gandhara, circa 2nd / 3rd century

Auction Closed

September 17, 03:45 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Length 12¾ in., 32.5 cm

Acquired circa 1970.

Chandreyi Basu, Displaying Many Faces: Art and Gandharan Identity. Selections from the David R. Nalin Collection, Philadelphia, 2004, pl. 105.

For a full discourse and references to monsters in Gandharan art, see Wladimir Zwalf, Gandhara Sculpture in the British Museum, vol. I, London, 1996, pp 253-54, pl. 344.