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A GRAY SCHIST STUPA HOUSING PRINCE SIDDHARTHA'S TURBAN, ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND-3RD CENTURY
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A GRAY SCHIST STUPA HOUSING PRINCE SIDDHARTHA'S TURBAN, ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND-3RD CENTURYExpert's note: According to Buddhist tradition, when Prince Siddhartha left his palace to become an ascetic in search of enlightenment, he renounced the symbols of his royal life. One of these was his princely turban, which he removed and left behind when cutting his hair at the beginning of his spiritual journey. In later Buddhist art and storytelling, the abandoned turban became a symbolic object representing the moment the prince gave up wealth and power to become the Buddha. Shrines or reliquaries said to house the Buddha's turban commemorate this pivotal moment of renunciation.Finely carved, the tiered structure rising from a tapering quadrilateral base that houses the Buddha's turban, symbolizing the departure of the historical Buddha from his worldly life. The superstructure supports a broad harmika surmounted by a domed chhatri, the exterior carved with dense foliate decoration.Provenance: Galerie von Schroeder, Zurich, Switzerland. A private collection in Switzerland, acquired from the above in 1972. A copy of a formal inventory excerpt issued by Galerie von Schroeder, Zurich, Switzerland, dated 6 July 1972, illustrating the present lot and confirming the dating above, accompanies the lot. A distinguished art historian and collector, Ulrich von Schroeder (b. 1943) is one of the most influential figures in the study of Himalayan art. Inspired by his great-great-uncle, the Indologist Leopold von Schroeder, he first traveled to Nepal at age 22, initiating a lifelong commitment to the study and documentation of Himalayan artistic traditions. Frustrated by the inconsistent dating and stylistic attributions in art publications of the 1960s and 1970s, von Schroeder undertook a rigorous four-year study that culminated in the 1981 publication of Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, the first comprehensive chronology of Tibetan metal sculpture. This was followed by his two-volume magnum opus, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet (2001), documenting over 1,000 bronzes in previously inaccessible monasteries, and Nepalese Stone Sculptures (2019), a monumental survey of nearly 3,000 Hindu and Buddhist stone sculptures in Nepal. To this day, von Schroeder's publications remain the only reliable encyclopedias on their subjects.Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Old wear, obvious losses, small chips, scattered nicks and scratches, natural fissures, signs of weathering and erosion, and encrustations.Weight: 2,480 g Dimensions: Height 22.3 cmThe stupa is probably the most popular monument in early Buddhism and takes its origin from the burial mound. The earliest examples were constructed to store Buddha's ashes and relics. In due course they were built to store the remains of Buddha's famous disciples or holy manuscripts.The building represents an architectural diagram of the cosmic world and consists of a base, a round drum, a hemispherical dome and a superstructure that consists of a square platform supporting a mast ornamented with a varying numbers of umbrellas gradually decreasing in size.Auction result comparison: Type: RelatedAuction: Christie's Paris, 7 June 2011, lot 364Price: EUR 51,400 or approx. EUR 64,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A gray schist stupa, Gandhara region, 2nd-3rd centuryExpert remark: Note the size (59 cm).Auction result comparison: Type: RelatedAuction: Christie's New York, 22 March 2011, lot 212Price: USD 6,875 or approx. EUR 8,700 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A gray schist relief of the Worshipped Stupa, Gandhara, 2nd-3rd centuryExpert remark: Note the size (27 cm).

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