A SMALL PAINTED LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

TANG DYNASTY (618-907), TIANLONGSHAN CAVES

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A SMALL PAINTED LIMESTONE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
TANG DYNASTY (618-907), TIANLONGSHAN CAVES
Shown standing in a tribhanga pose with right hand raised holding a globular object and left arm pendent at the side, wearing a pendant-hung necklace, sashes and a diaphanous dhoti rolled at the waist and falling in crisp U-shaped folds against the legs, with traces of white gesso
13¼ in. (33.7 cm.) high, stand
Provenance
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, prior to 1962.
Exhibited
The Columbia University Exhibition of Three Thousand Years of the Ceramic Art and Ancient Sculpture of China from the Sackler Collections, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, 20 November 1962 - 18 January 1963, no. S-1010.

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