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Place of Origin: Afghan
A Fine Gandharan Head of a Buddha
Located in London, GB
A Fine Gandharan Head of a Buddha Stucco with ‘earth pigment’ Some old ‘restoration’ to the nose Afghanistan 3rd Century AD Size: 26cm high, 14.5cm...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Afghan Antiquities

Materials

Stucco

A Fine Gandharan Head of a Buddha
A Fine Gandharan Head of a Buddha

A Fine Gandharan Head of a Buddha

$34,000
Large Bactrian Bronze Age Alabaster Chalice
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Bactrian alabaster chalice, circa 3000-2000 BC. It has an elegant tapering formed base with a undeep rimmed cup. The alabaster is strikingly vained. ...
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15th Century and Earlier Archaistic Antique Afghan Antiquities

Materials

Alabaster

Large Bactrian Bronze Age Alabaster Chalice
Large Bactrian Bronze Age Alabaster Chalice

Large Bactrian Bronze Age Alabaster Chalice

$3,292
A Stucco Torso of the Buddha, Gandhara, 4th-5th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a STUNNING piece of Indian Antiquity from circa the 4th-5th Century, namely, A Stucco Torso of the Buddha, Gandhara. Ancient Gandhara is located in the rugged foothills of the Himalayas in what is today northwest Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, was for centuries a thriving center of trade along the Silk Road linking China, South Asia, and the Mediterranean. The piece was purchased by a Private Collector at Sotheby’s, or more probably, Christies of New York Auction pre-2000. The paper label on the wooden base is “7281/465” for Sale Number 7281, Lot No. 465. Sotheby’s and Christies operate a twice yearly auction of Southeast Asian Art & Antiquities in New York in the months of March and September. The Sale Number is more like a ‘Christies;’ Sale Number but we cannot locate any records for this sale online as it was pre-2004. The sculpture is a Gandharan stucco headless bust...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Medieval Antique Afghan Antiquities

Materials

Stucco

A Stucco Torso of the Buddha, Gandhara, 4th-5th Century
A Stucco Torso of the Buddha, Gandhara, 4th-5th Century

A Stucco Torso of the Buddha, Gandhara, 4th-5th Century

$8,500
Bactrian Bronze Age Marble Column Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Bactrian marble column idol, circa 3000-2000 BC. It has an elegant tapering form with a undeep groove running on the top. The colomn has incrustation on the side where it laid on the...
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15th Century and Earlier Archaistic Antique Afghan Antiquities

Materials

Marble

Bactrian Bronze Age Marble Column Idol
Bactrian Bronze Age Marble Column Idol

Bactrian Bronze Age Marble Column Idol

$3,591
Bactrian Marble Column Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
Bactrian marble column idol, circa 3000-2000 Bc. It has a elegant tapering form with a undeep groove running on the top and bottom. The marble is a breccia type with striking vains i...
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15th Century and Earlier Archaistic Antique Afghan Antiquities

Materials

Marble

Bactrian Marble Column Idol
Bactrian Marble Column Idol

Bactrian Marble Column Idol

$2,573
Ancient Bactrian Marble Idol Staff Sceptor
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A large Bactrian marble staff circa late 3rd-2nd millennium BCE. The Bactrian culture was discovered by Soviet archeologists in the 1970s in Afghanistan. Also called the Oxus culture...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Afghan Antiquities

Materials

Marble

Ancient Bactrian Marble Idol Staff Sceptor
Ancient Bactrian Marble Idol Staff Sceptor

Ancient Bactrian Marble Idol Staff Sceptor

$5,387
Biconvex Bronze Age Bactrian stone Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A Bactrian biconvex stone idol. Alongside column and figurative idols these intriguing objects belong to the Bactria-Margana culture. An ancient civilization dating between the 3th a...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Afghan Antiquities

Materials

Slate

Biconvex Bronze Age Bactrian stone Idol
Biconvex Bronze Age Bactrian stone Idol

Biconvex Bronze Age Bactrian stone Idol

$3,471
Old Rare Afghan Musical Instrument like a Sculpture
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Lovely old "Saranji", rare Afghan musical instrument. It's an oriental lute from Naxçivan, the town which owes its origine to the tribe Nakh. In Your home it may be like a sculpture ...
Category

Mid-18th Century Other Antique Afghan Antiquities

Materials

Fruitwood

Old Rare Afghan Musical Instrument like a Sculpture
Old Rare Afghan Musical Instrument like a Sculpture

Old Rare Afghan Musical Instrument like a Sculpture

$1,436
Bactrian Ritual Object
Located in Coral Gables, FL
Bactrian culture, Afghanistan. 3rd or early 2nd Millennium B.C.
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15th Century and Earlier Other Antique Afghan Antiquities

Bactrian Ritual Object
Bactrian Ritual Object

Bactrian Ritual Object

Price Upon Request
Bactrian Ritual Object
Located in Coral Gables, FL
Bactrian ritual object, Bactrian culture, Quetta, Afghanistan 3rd or early 2nd Millennium B.C.
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15th Century and Earlier Other Antique Afghan Antiquities

Bactrian Ritual Object
Bactrian Ritual Object

Bactrian Ritual Object

Price Upon Request
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2-3 B.C., Afghanistan, Rare Bactrian Hardstone Weight
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Afghan Antiquities

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2-3 B.C., Afghanistan, Rare Bactrian Hardstone Weight

2-3 B.C., Afghanistan, Rare Bactrian Hardstone Weight

H 7.6 in Dm 5.63 in
2-3 B.C., Afghanistan, Rare Ancient Antique Bactrian Hardstone Weight
Located in Sampantawong, TH
Rare Bactrian hardstone weight with creamy stone color and 2 holes on the top, the base is flat. In the ancient time, the two holes were used to tie up with rope and measure the weig...
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2-3 B.C., Afghanistan, Rare Ancient Antique Bactrian Hardstone Weight

2-3 B.C., Afghanistan, Rare Ancient Antique Bactrian Hardstone Weight

H 7.72 in Dm 5.83 in
Small Bactrian Mottled Marble Cup
Located in Vosselaar, BE
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Small Bactrian Mottled Marble Cup
Small Bactrian Mottled Marble Cup

Small Bactrian Mottled Marble Cup

H 4.73 in Dm 2.76 in
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Located in Vosselaar, BE
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Alabaster

Small Bactrian Alabaster Offering Vessel
Small Bactrian Alabaster Offering Vessel

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H 4.73 in Dm 2.76 in
Bactrian Alabaster Aniconic Idol
Located in Vosselaar, BE
A carved alabaster ovoid or aniconic idol with distinctive hole to the narrow end. 10.3 kg, 22cm (8 3/4"). Fine condition. Bactrian culture, circa 2nd millennium B.C. The Bactrian culture existed between the 3rd millennium B.C. and the 6th century in Central Asia comprising modern Afghanistan and bordering India. Its origins as a bronze age civilization was only recently (1970s) discovered by Russian archaeologist. And it was only in the 1990s that Western countries learned about it. At its most famous site, the Bactria-Margiana complex, they found an astonishing amount of remains which still is being researched today. Apart from beautiful metal objects a lot of stone idols...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique Afghan Antiquities

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Alabaster

Bactrian Alabaster Aniconic Idol
Bactrian Alabaster Aniconic Idol

Bactrian Alabaster Aniconic Idol

H 9.45 in W 5.12 in D 4.73 in

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