2nd-3rd century AD. A carved schist frieze panel with flanking columns, groups of standing figures including three dancers in animated pose, nimbate boy (Siddharta?) with attendant behind holding a canopy, two robed attendants with turbans; mounted on a custom-made stand. Cf. Jongeward, D., Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018, item 32, for type. 9.3 kg total, 45cm wide including stand (17 3/4"). From the property of a London gentleman; formerly in a UK collection, acquired in the 1990s. Fine condition.