A GUPTA RED SANDSTONE BUST OF A BODHISATTVA

A GUPTA RED SANDSTONE BUST OF A BODHISATTVA, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 5TH CENTURY

his head turned slightly to his left, wearing necklace, bazuband, crown with floral medallion and hair arranged in tiered floral ringlets, a srivatsa emblem on his chest, mounted

29cm high

Provenance: Private collection, Northern England. Acquired Jeremy Knowles Ltd. London, 27th May 2009.

For a closely related, larger bust of a male deity formerly in the Pan Asian Collection, see Pratapaditya Pal, The Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan Asian Collection, Los Angeles 1977, p.43, no.19.