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A SCHIST STELE OF HARITI
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY7 3/4 in. (19.8 cm) high
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犍陀羅 二/三世紀 片岩訶梨帝母石碑Hariti, a reformed ogress propitiated for successful child-rearing, was the principal female Buddhist deity of ancient Gandhara, also popular throughout Central Asia and China. A 7th-century account indicates that sculptures of her were commonly installed near Gandharan monastic dining halls (Takakusu?(trans.),?Record of the Buddhist Religion as?Practised?in India and the Malay Archipelago, Oxford, 1896).?Another small-scale stele of Hariti with her children is in the Peshawar University Museum (Luczanits, Gandhara: Das Buddhistische erbe Pakistans, Mainz, 2008, p.156, no.105). The present sculpture's distinctive dark schist color has a regional association with monuments at the epicenter of Gandharan civilization such as Takht-Bahi and Sahri-Bahlol (cf., ibid., pp.154-5, nos.102 & 104, and pp.244-5, abbs.3 & 5).ProvenanceEstate of Maude O. Davis, Princeton, NJSotheby's, New York, 23 March 1995, lot 32The Estate of Benjamin M. Rice II, New York