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Carved schist relief representing amorini. Amorini symbolise love, like cherubs, and are generally naked, wearing only necklaces and anklets. They originated in Greece and spread throughout Western Asia, becoming particularly popular in Gandhara. The…

Head of the Buddha with topknot (ushnisha) and tuft (urna), halo missing.

Carved schist relief representing amorini Amorini symbolise love, like cherubs, and are generally naked, wearing only necklaces and anklets. They originated in Greece and spread throughout Western Asia, becoming particularly popular in Gandhara. The…

Single standing statuette of the Buddha/Boddhisatva Maitreya. The figure is draped, and with moustache, topknot, tuft, halo. Hands missing.

Large stone effigy, in sandstone, of an armoured knight from the ruins of Elgin Cathedral, Morayshire. It is carved nearly in the round but with the back attached to a wall and comprises head and torso. The knight wears armour of the late 15th…

Carved sandstone boss probably from the medieval cathedral at Elgin.

Marble bust of Robert Wilson, M D, 1787-1871. Bequeathed by him to Marischal College Aberdeen, 1871.

Bronze bust of Lydia Lopokova. Part of the Dr. J.W.A. Hunter bequest to the University of Aberdeen (for the founding of Medical Scholarships) in January 1960. Also part of the same bequest are 2 paintings ('Nirvana' by Augustus John, 'The Girl in the…

'Part of a relievo of Grecian sculpture, in white marble' - reference in Knight's handwritten catalogue, c. 1840, under 'Antiquities' but no reference in 1887 King's College Catalogue, nor in Reid's 1912 Catalogue.

Rectangular stone panel with high relief erotic carving: 6 bays divided by 5 pillars with total of 8 figures. Figures grouped as 3 single (2 female, other indistinct) alternating with 3 pairs, each male and female. Frieze above or plantlike motifs,…