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KASHMIR, 8TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 207015
11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.) high
Footnotes
克什米爾 八世紀 寶冠佛黑石像
Provenance
Private Asian Collection
Refined in its detail and naturalistically modelled, this diminutive stele shares its iconography with some of the most important Kashmiri bronzes —among them the Shakyamuni shrine in the Asia Society, New York (acc. no. 1979.44): the Buddha is crowned and mantled in a distinctive tasseled cape with pointed corners. First appearing in Afghanistan in the 6th century, the tasseled cape came to signal authority in the art of greater Kashmir, where it was closely associated with royal donorship (see Linrothe, Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies, 2014, pp. 56-61, figs. 1.28 and 1.30). Compare an 8th-century stone image in the Sri Pratap Singh Museum, Srinagar (acc. no. 1896).
A triad of crowned buddhas shares the present lot's proportions, its large rosette earrings and beaded necklace, the treatment of the radiating halo, and the stupa carved on the reverse (see Siudmak, , 2013, pp. 364-365, pls. 168a and b). A further 9th-century example is in the British Museum, London (acc. no. 1960,0411.3).