Lot description
A highly important gray schist figure of the Emaciated Siddhartha, or 'Fasting Buddha' Gandhara, 3rd/4th century Expressively carved seated in dhyanasana on grass over a pedestal, clad in a long sanghati with deep folds falling over his ankles, his emaciated torso revealing the ribcage, his face with gaunt cheeks and deep-set eyes, his veins and tendons visible and his hair in unruly locks pulled over the ushnisha, the base centered by a stupa and flanked by worshippers 31½ in. (80.0 cm.) high
