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| Keywords: Pakistani - Head of the Buddha - Walters 25243 - Three Quarter.jpg This stucco head with black pigments still remaining in the eyes once belonged to a Buddha image that occupied a niche in a stupa A large number of similar heads and more complete figures were recovered from sites in Taxila and it is likely that this head is also from that region see Ingholt and Lyons 1957 figs 497 and 517-40 In several of these heads the hair is rendered in short waves of curly undercut locks as is the case here Thus despite the missing cranial bump ushnisha the head can be identified as that of a Buddha century 4 Gandharan stucco with pigments cm 22 9 Overall1 cm 28 6 accession number 25 243 20584 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2002 Desire and Devotion Art from India Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque 2001-2003 place of origin Gandhara in present-day Pakistan Walters Art Museum license Art of Gandhara in the Walters Art Museum 4th-century art of Pakistan Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Statues of the Buddha | ||||
