Untitled

Gujarat, 11th-12th century CE, Solanki period

from The British Museum

British Museum.

Bust of Apollo Pencil and white charcoal on black paper (24 x 33 cm paper) 20 x 30 cm 2025

BW Edit after Assyrian Mesopotamian artist of the Middle Assyrian Period (ca. 12th century BCE) (Cylinder seal and modern impression: griffin demon) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 41.160.217)

BW Edit after Achaemenid artist of ca. 6th–4th century BCE (Plaque with horned lion-griffins, detail) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 54.3.2)

BW Edit after Egyptian artist of the New Kingdom (Dynasty 18, Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.) (Sphinx of Hatshepsut) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 31.3.94)

BW Edit after Greek or Roman artist of the Late Hellenistic or Late Republican Period (1st century BCE) (Terracotta head of Dionysos) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Acc. 08.258.34)

Medium: Rock crystal

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The eyes were inlaid w glass/ivory. The rough surface of the lips was covered with thin copper or silver foil. Work of Roman eclecticism of the early imperial period but oriented on Greek models of the 5th century BC. -art google

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479-1425 BC. From Karnak, Thebes. Now in the Neues Museum, Berlin. ÄM 19289 Photo: Sandra Steiß

Private Collection (Sotheby's, London)