2nd-3rd century AD. A section of carved schist frieze with central facing figure of Buddha on a lotus-flower dais flanked by standing bodhisattvas and smaller attendants, boughs of the bodhi tree above, base with frieze of fronds and flowers below; mounted on a custom-made stand. See Jongeward, D. Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2018. 99.1 kg, 96.5cm including stand (38"). Property of a London collector, acquired early 1990s.