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Gandharan Frieze with Scenes from the Life of Buddha

2nd/3rd Century

An Indonesian offer post from the Tetum people of Timor Island. The work is stone and is unsigned.

A Sancai, tri color glazed pottery figure of a Tang Dynasty official. Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD).

A gray sandstone head of Avalokiteshvara, Khmer, Cambodia, Bayon Style from the 13th century. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Charles Craig, Privat...

A Chinese Procession Ornament dating from the Liao Dynasty, from 907 to 1125 AD. The Liao Dynasty, also known as the Khitan Empire, was an empire in northern China that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper. It was founded by the Yelu family of the Khitan people in the final years of the Tang Dynasty, even though its first ruler, Yelu Abaoji, did not declare an era name until 916. The Liao Empire was destroyed by the Jurchen of the Jin Dynasty in 1125. However, remnants of its people led by Yelu Dashi established the Xi (or Western) Liao Dynasty 1125 - 1220, also known as Kara - Khitan Khanate, which survived until the arrival of Genghis Khan...

A very rare and decidedly charming half-scale terracotta sculpture of the bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future, ancient region of Gandha...

A fine ancient wooden Buddhist carving. In the form of the Buddha or a bodhisattva. With an old piece of wax to the reverse, likely intended to be wall mounted. Simply a wonderful...

This impressive 14th-century Jain altar fragment in marble, featuring Tirthankara Chandraprabha, is a rare and spiritually significant masterpiece from historic Rajasthan, India. Car...

122/13thC Song Dynasty Chinese Terracotta Buddha in the form of an Architectural wall piece. These are sometimes referred to as bricks, though they are much larger and finer than any...