100-300 AD. Gandharan. A grey schist figure of standing Buddha. He is depicted wearing a flowing gown and sporting a topknot (ushnisha). He has urna on his forehead, arched brow, heavily lidded, half-closed eyes, a bulbous nose, full lips, rounded chin and large, pendulous ears. He stands atop a plinth bearing a scene from his life and is backed by a circular halo. 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 figure 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; some repairs; on a custom stand.Size: L:500mm / W:198mm ; 11.6kg; 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.