A SMALL LIMESTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA
A SMALL LIMESTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA
A SMALL LIMESTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA
A SMALL LIMESTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA
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Property from the Shorenstein Collection, San Francisco
A SMALL LIMESTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA

NORTHERN QI-SUI DYNASTY, 6TH CENTURY

Details
A SMALL LIMESTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA
NORTHERN QI-SUI DYNASTY, 6TH CENTURY
8 7⁄8 in. (22.5 cm.) high, composite stand
Provenance
Paul Wang Collection, Michigan, before 1983.
Christie's New York, 5 June 1986, lot 104, and front cover.
Andrew Kahane, New York, June 1989, and thence by descent within the family.
Literature
National Museum of History, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from the Wei through the Tang Dynasties, Taipei, 1983, p.129 and 131.
Exhibited
Taipei, National Museum of History, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from the Wei through the Tang Dynasties, 1983.

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Lot Essay

This sensitively carved head of Buddha likely comes from Shandong or Hebei province and is very similar to a Northern-Qi dynasty stone head in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by D. Leidy and D. Strahan in Wisdom Embodied, Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010, p. 172, no. A12. Both the present head and the example in The Metropolitan Museum are of diminutive size and share stylistic similarities of the softly curving eyelids and mouth. See, also, a slightly larger stone head of Buddha (12 ¼ in.) sold at Christie’s New York, 18 March 2016, lot 1406, and one in the Rietberg Museum illustrated by H. Brinker and E. Fischer in Treasures from the Rietberg Museum, New York, 1980, p. 137, no. 51.

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