STELE FRAGMENT DEPICTING A FLUTE PLAYER
- India, Mathura region
- Kushan period, 2nd century
- 18th - 19th century
- Marble
- (H × W × D): 49.2 × 23 × 14.8 cm
- (19.4 × 9.1 × 5.8 in.) incl. stand.
- Base made by the Japanese artist Kichizo Inagaki (1876–1951).
- Provenance:
• Former collection of Paul Guillaume (1891–1934).
• Private French collection, Paris.
- Publication:
• E.Tériade, “Nos enquêtes: Entretien avec Paul Guillaume,” Cahiers d’art, 2nd year, no. 1 (1927), supplement Feuilles volantes, pp. 1–3. Photographs: interior of Paul Guillaume’s apartment, with the stele visible.
Photo credit : Studio Asselberghs – Frédéric Dehaen
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