Attendant figure and Seated Buddha 4th-5th Centuries A.D.
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Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
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We would do well to compare these figures with those in slide 30 to see the degree to which the Ghandarans have become more at home in this new medium of stucco, All the gentility and originality present in our examples are markedly above the earlier ones in sensitivity to form and volume, It is noticeable, too, that there has been a reduction of geometric delineation of drapery folds in the stucco works, The planes produced in their place are smoother, more convincing as real material covering or draping the body, and economically abstract, for the continuity of forms is not disrupted by their presence, -- (a) Attendant figure, (b) Buddha seated in meditation, © Princely attendant, -- London, Victoria and Albert Museum,
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Basham Collection
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circa 1970s
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