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A TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A FEMALE DEITY, GUPTA PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY
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12月16日 晚上6点 开拍 /6天17小时
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A TERRACOTTA HEAD OF A FEMALE DEITY, GUPTA PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY

Northern India. Finely modeled, the face with a cheerful expression, rounded cheeks, and neatly incised almond-shaped eyes below arched brows, a broad nose above full lips, and twisted hair pulled to one side, all flanked by ears suspending large loop-form earrings. The neck adorned with a wide necklace featuring ring-punched details.

Provenance: R. M. Collection, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium, acquired between 1979 and 2009, thence by descent to his wife Marie-Anne Lefevre in 2023.
Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, obvious losses, some rubbing, minor nicks and light scratches, expected weathering, and encrustations. Possibly with smaller old repairs.

Weight: 428.9 g (excl. stand), 731.6 g (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 12 cm (excl. stand), 18.4 cm (incl. stand)

Terracotta was the traditional material for religious images in the Ganges Valley and in the Mauryan and Shunga periods (3rd-1st century BC). Bengal had been the source of some of the most sophisticated figures of gods and goddesses. In the Gupta period, several centers of terracotta sculpture emerged across the Empire, from Akhnur in Kashmir, down to Shravasti and Bitargaon in Uttar Pradesh, around the Gupta capital at Pataliputra (Patna), and down into the Ganges Delta where some of the richest red clays were available. The lack of stone in eastern Bihar and Bengal meant that clay had always been used for architectural purposes, brick adorned with terracotta or stucco being the most widely used material, and a number of archaeological sites in Bengal attest to the sophistication of the effects achieved.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related terracotta head of Manasa, Eastern India, Gupta period, dated early 6th century, 30 cm high, exhibited by John Eskenazi at Asian Art in London, November 2011. Compare a related terracotta bust of Vishnu, Gupta period, dated 5th-6th century, 29.2 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 2000.82.

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