$504
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Auction: October 14, 2021 11:00:00 AM EDT
The larger carved with a man riding a lion-headed sea monster, the smaller one carved with a winged horse-like mythical beast, attached to plush backing, framed.
D: 4 1/2 in. (larger)Property from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Giraud V. and Carolyn Foster, acquired prior to 1974.
NOTE: For other examples of this form, including dishes carved with men astride sea-monsters, dated to the first and second century, B.C., see Martin Lerner and Steven Kossak, "The Lotus Transcendent, Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection", Worcester, Massachusetts, 1991, pp. 61-63, nos. 17-22; see also Sir John Marshall, "The Buddhist Art of Gandhara", Cambridge, 1960, pl 13, fig 15.