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Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum

A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Indian art by J. C. Harle and Andrew Topsfield (published Oxford, 1987).

Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum by J. C. Harle and Andrew Topsfield

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Fragmentary standing figure

  • Literature notes

    This impressive though fragmentary little bronze, found in Gandhara but purely Graeco-Roman in style, was clearly an import. Such foreign works of art, dating from 1st to 4th centuries A.D. have been found in considerable numbers in Indian and Pakistan, from the north-west to the northern Deccan, as well as in Afghanistan. Many of them can be traced to Alexandria. It is more difficult to determine the place of origin of this bronze, for the costume, marked by tassels at the back hanging down from an upper garment, is neither Greek, Roman nor Indian. It seems most likely to have been made in some Hellenistic milieu of Western Asia.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Gandhara (find spot)
    Asia (place of creation)
    Asia (probable, western) (place of creation)
    Date
    1st - 4th century AD (AD 1 - 400)
    Material and technique
    bronze, hollow cast
    Dimensions
    11.8 x 4.6 x 3.6 cm (height x width x depth)
    with stand 16 x 7.5 x 4.3 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    Technique index
    formed cast
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    EAOS.13.a
  • Further reading

    Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 23 on p. 18, illus. p. 18

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Publications online

  • Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum by J. C. Harle and Andrew Topsfield

    Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum

    This impressive though fragmentary little bronze, found in Gandhara but purely Graeco-Roman in style, was clearly an import. Such foreign works of art, dating from 1st to 4th centuries A.D. have been found in considerable numbers in Indian and Pakistan, from the north-west to the northern Deccan, as well as in Afghanistan. Many of them can be traced to Alexandria. It is more difficult to determine the place of origin of this bronze, for the costume, marked by tassels at the back hanging down from an upper garment, is neither Greek, Roman nor Indian. It seems most likely to have been made in some Hellenistic milieu of Western Asia.
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