Buddha, Greco-buddhist Art 200 To 400 Ad

Magnificent statue presenting the young Shakyaumi Buddha, crown prince of the Shakya kingdom. He is seated with his legs crossed in front of a mandola, his arms resting on his knees and his hands clasped in the position of Dhyana Mudra in meditation under the Bodhi tree. Her face is finely modeled with elegant features, the slightly closed eyelids, the slightly marked brow bones, the aquiline nose and the carefully drawn closed lips. Her slightly smiling expression symbolizes wholeness, the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment and well-being in rejection of the material world. Her curly headdress with incised decorations is surmounted by the Ushnisha bun symbolizing her new knowledge of lights. He wears a pleated toga evoking an iconography of Greek origin characterizing this unique style in the history of art at the meeting of two great currents, Hellenistic and Buddhist. dimensions: height: 28 x22 x 8 cm height with base: 32.5 x 24.5 x12 cm Stucco, with beautiful remains of red, white and black pigments, glued right knee, marks of time, polychromy of origin and period, good general state of conservation. Gandhara Greco-Buddhist art, 200 to 400 AD Provenance: Acquired by its former owner at the Artemis Gallery, Louisville, USA, on October 1, 2019, formerly Fortuna Fine Arts New-York, USA in the 1970s-1980s