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A CARVED SCHIST RELIQUARY BOX AND COVER, ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA
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04月11日 下午5点 开拍
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Kushan period, 1st-4th century. The box with deep rounded sides surmounted by the domed flush-fitting cover, each finely incised with horizontal line bands encircling the disk-form finial with conical top.Provenance: From a private collection in Bremen, Germany.Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age, with minor old repairs, wear, small losses, and some nibbling. Natural imperfections, including fissures, structural cracks, encrustations, and signs of weathering and erosion, are all consistent with ancient wares of this type.Weight: 315.1 gDimensions: Height 6.7 cm, Diameter 7.9 cmSmall in size, reliquaries such as the present lot are made of slate stone or metamorphic rock (schist). Considered sacred and venerable, relics were placed inside stupas to commemorate the demise of important Buddhist teachers. Buddha's relics have also been placed inside several such caskets. After cremation, bones, teeth and hair are saved and honored by erecting a stupa over it. In western Indian Buddhist cave temples and in the Gandhara region, many stupas in different shapes containing the holy relics of Buddhist teachers have been constructed or carved. Stupas represent the 'nirvana' of Buddha. Pious devotees would circumambulate them, remembering the passing of Buddha.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related sarira casket, Kushan dynasty, 2nd-3rd dynasty, 19.3 cm high, in the Nara National Museum, accession number 907-0. Compare a closely related stone Gandhara casket, 3rd-4th century, 5.7 cm high, in the Asian Civilisations Museum, accession number 1994-04959. Compare a closely related stone reliquary box with a lid, Pakistan, 1st century, 11.1 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1987.142.143a, b.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Bonhams New York, 21 March 2023, lot 527Price: USD 5,355 or approx. EUR 5,400 (for two) converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: Two schist Buddhist reliquaries, Ancient region of Gandhara, circa 1st centuryExpert remark: Compare the related form and stone. Note the size (8.9 cm), carved decoration, and deposits.

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