Unknown Artist
Torso of a Buddha
- Location
- Upper Asian gallery
- Further information
The youthful male torso is characteristic of the important Mathura school that flourished in northern India under the rule of the Kushan dynasty. Carved from the mottled red sandstone found around Mathura, it demonstrates the skill of the Indian sculptor in eliciting from hard stone the soft contours of a youthful body beneath transparent robes. The absence of this fragment’s head and right hand (which would have been held in a specific gesture, or 'mudra') prevents its precise identification.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.27.
- Place of origin
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Mathura,
Uttar Pradesh,
India
- Period
- India: Kushan period mid 1st century–early 5th century
- Year
- 1st century-2nd century
- Media
- Sculpture
- Medium
- mottled red sandstone
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 42.0 x 16.0cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Alex Biancardi 1998
- Accession number
- 114.1998
