PANNEAU EN RELIEF REPRÉSENTANT BOUDDHA EN SCHISTE GRISANCIENNE RÉGION DU GANDHARA, IIIE/IVE SIÈCLE52 cm (20 1/2 in.) highProvenance: A GREY SCHIST PANEL OF BUDDHAANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 3RD/4TH CENTURY犍陀羅 三／四世紀 片岩佛陀像Provenance:With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970sThis panel would have likely represented the scene of the Buddha receiving the offering of the four bowls under the bodhi tree, as evidenced by the flower element by his left shoulder (Kurita,Gandhara Art, Vol. II, 2003, p. 122, no. 238).Buddha's slightly squat proportions and broad face with large ears follow a convention favored by Gandharan art of the Swat Valley.pare a seated Buddha in the Royal Ontario Museum that also has a band of rosettes across the base (Ibid, p. 101, no. 264). Alsopare one image sold at , New York, 19 March 2018, lot 3063 and another sold at Christie's, New York, 22 March 2011, lot 228.