Ancient Gandhara Buddhist Carved Schist Statue of Atlas Kushan Empire 300 AD Mid-Century Modern Jan Cossiers

Jan Cossiers

which were at the intersection between Surrealism and abstraction

to the base is another bas relief an East Indian scene with gilded bronze figures holding muskets and spears

the table is flanked with two carved & beaded rectangular devices

"The Entombment of Christ"

Ancient Gandhara Buddhist Carved Schist Statue of Atlas Kushan Empire 300 AD Mid-Century Modern Jan CossiersA finely carved Ancient Gandharan statue of Atlas, Kushan Empire, 2nd 3rd century CE. The Gandharan "Atlas figure" is depicted as a powerful, muscular male figure that emerged from Greco Buddhist art (2nd 3rd century CE) that adopted the Greek Titan Atlas, sometimes the figure is portrayed with wings. This figure appears crouched with one knee raised high with his arm resting above, the other hand on his other knee resting down. The statue is bare