300–500 AD. Gandharan. This striking Gandharan stucco figure of a standing Buddha is executed in a highly stylised manner, with a severe face, heavy-lidded eyes, fleshy mouth and characteristic topknot. He wears a long red robe and delicately holds a cylindrical object, perhaps an incense burner, in one hand. Gandhara was an ancient region in the Peshawar basin in the north-west of the ancient Indian subcontinent (modern north-west Pakistan and south-east Afghanistan). The Kushan period (c. 75-451 AD) of Gandharan art, to which this stucco example belongs, was the golden age of artistic production in the area. For further information on Gandharan art, see Jongeward, D. 2019, Buddhist Art Of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Good condition; restored; on a custom-made stand.Size: L:410mm / W:400mm ; 2.45kg; Provenance; Property of a Central London gallery, obtained from a private London collection (M.A); formerly acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s and 80s.