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Property from the Estate of Ronald Garrigues
A BLACKSTONE STELE OF BUDDHA
NORTHEASTERN INDIA, BIHAR, PALA PERIOD, 9TH/10TH CENTURY Himalayan Art Resources item no.16926 10 1/2 in. (26.5 cm) high
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印度東北部 比哈爾邦 帕拉時期 九/十世紀 黑石佛陀像Under the bodhi tree, Buddha is at the moment of realizing enlightenment, with his right hand reaching down in bhumisparsha mudra, calling the Earth to witness it. He sits on a thin cushion of rosettes spaced by blank cartouches above a double-lotus platform. The back panel frames his broad physique with arching pearl and flame borders. The sculpture's figural suppleness and its relatively simple, unpolished back panel follow stylistic conventions of 9th-/10th-century Buddhist steles produced in Bihar at famous pilgrimage sites, such as Nalanda and Bodh Gaya. Compare other 9th-century steles depicting the Buddha in Huntington, The Pala-Sena Schools of Sculpture, Vol.II, Leiden, 1984, nos.42 & 103. Provenance Estate of Ronald Garrigues (1930-2020), California, by 1990s