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Leaves as a motif in art

Luca Maria Olivieri, Elisa Iori
Monumental Entrance to Gandharan Buddhist Architecture. Stairs and Gates from Swat

Decorative ornaments from the Buddhist complex in Swat (Pakistan) generally dated to the 2nd-3rd century CE.

“The importance of this motif either with pipal or ivy is also stressed by its presence of the decorated band on the kaftan of Kanishka (?) in the celebrated statue II from Surkh Kotal”

SSI 217, stair-riser from the second stairway of Saidu
Sharif I. Photo by Edoardo Loliva
GBK 50, stair-riser. Photo by Edoardo Loliva
Ivy scroll, schist. Koi, Gandhara, now housed in the Musée
Guimet AO2953
After Katsumi TANABE
Hariti in the Guise of the Greek Goddess Tyche
Gandhara, c. 2nd–3rd century
Hariti wears an Indian jeweled hip-girdle (mekhela) adorned with a bodhi leaf [read more]
Indian Bodhi-tree and a leaf, Sānchī, India
After Katsumi TANABE
Ivy, Ostia, Italy
After Katsumi TANABE

MANIAKION – THE GOLDEN TORC IN THE LATE ROMAN AND EARLY BYZANTINE ARMY Preliminary Research Report Zsolt Mráv

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/83549614.pdf

Silver neckband with a large leaf-pendant decorated with a Christogram from a child’s sarcophagus in Carnuntum (Austria)
[after Zsolt Mráv]
https://www.academia.edu/resource/work/83007593
  1. Tadashi Tanabe, PEOPLED VINE SCROLL IN GANDHARAN SCULPTURE
  2. Tadashi Tanabe, The transmission of Dionysiac imagery to Gandhāran Buddhist art https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
  3. Tadashi Tanabe, THE DIONYSIAC IMAGERY FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN TO GANDHĀRA
  1. Luca Maria Olivieri, Elisa Iori Monumental Entrance to Gandharan Buddhist Architecture. Stairs and Gates from Swat
  2. Katsumi TANABE, Indian Bodhi-Tree or Ivy Scroll in Gandharan Art ─ A Misidentified Cordiform Floral Motif https://www.academia.edu
  3. MANIAKION – THE GOLDEN TORC IN THE LATE ROMAN AND EARLY BYZANTINE ARMY Preliminary Research Report Zsolt Mráv https://core.ac.uk