Philippe Le Miere 'Seated Buddha from Gandhara' sculpture Condition: Good: Foxing and discolouration

Condition: Good: Foxing and discolouration is evident across the surface of the work

Alices Foot is an etching from Charles Blackmans beloved Mother Goose series of 1977

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A painting of a non-native plant indicated that its creator had access to among the most rare and fleeting of beauties

Paper Size: 56 x 80 cm (height x width)

Philippe Le Miere 'Seated Buddha from Gandhara' sculpture Condition: Good: Foxing and discolourationAccording to historians, the earliest phase of Buddhist art only featured indirect or aniconic representations of Buddha. Rather than depictions of Buddha as a man, he appeared symbolically as an empty throne, Bodhi tree, riderless horse with a parasol floating above an empty space, footprints or the dharma wheel. By the 2nd or 3rd century AD however, anthropomorphic representations of Buddha had emerged, with an early sculptural example existing in