Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
23 July 1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/860
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EASTERN SCULPTURE. Ghe Property of Miss M. G. Barnes. Figure or BuppHa of the Greek Apollo type, in style of those found at Takht-i-Bahi, seated in the editative posture, robed up to the neck, pottery, moulded Pal} La by hand, the robes with remains of colouring, set in a / backing of plaster, 10 in. high, c. 1st Cent. a.v.; in a glazed case, 144 in. by 16 in. by 8 in. 2 ** Found in the Khyber Pass, India, in 1878. N= a —_ _irregrflar ioe orey, with a cavo relievo circle eoataae ‘44 } 4 the six Tibetan characters Om! Mani Padme Hum !; Ly .— “he other with the same inscription in a horizontal Pail. both being the formula for the Worship of Padmapani the Patron of Tibet, and recited to stop the cyde of re- Pir; ¢c. 13th Cent. A.D: *;* Found in the Khyber Pass, India, in 1878. Other Properties. oo] 4a / t Figure of an Indo-Scythian Prince in horne-bleud Schist, ra) standing against a pillar, the face with a moustache, the body robed with a tunic, skirt and underskirt, arms broken off, 93 m, ; Gandhara, 3rd Cent. A.D. -Scythian Figure of a Prince, three-quarter-length, orne-blend schist, holding in his right hand an offer- ng and in his left hand a flower, he wears an ornamental head-dress, a chaplet of jewels over his bare breast and his robe is looped up at the waist, 941m. high; on wood stand 2
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