A TANG DYNASTY STONE HEAD OF A LOKAPALA, the face with fierce expression, stiff collar round the neck, bulging eyes beneath heavy upper eyelids and accentuated eye-brows curling towards the nose-bridge, broad nose, arched upper lip, surmounted by a highly swept coiffure, 7th/9th Century
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A TANG DYNASTY STONE HEAD OF A LOKAPALA, the face with fierce expression, stiff collar round the neck, bulging eyes beneath heavy upper eyelids and accentuated eye-brows curling towards the nose-bridge, broad nose, arched upper lip, surmounted by a highly swept coiffure, 7th/9th Century
34 cm high, mounted
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