EARLY BUDDHIST SCULPTURE
A GREY LIMESTONE HEAD OF A BODDHISATVA OF LONGMEN TYPE
6TH CENTURY
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A GREY LIMESTONE HEAD OF A BODDHISATVA OF LONGMEN TYPE
6th century
Crisply carved with a serene slightly amused expression with hooded slit eyes, arched eyebrows and broad angular nose between long pendulous earlobes below a tiara enclosing a square top-knot and suspending a loose cloth down the back of the head, minor chips
10½in. (27cm.) high, stone stand
6th century
Crisply carved with a serene slightly amused expression with hooded slit eyes, arched eyebrows and broad angular nose between long pendulous earlobes below a tiara enclosing a square top-knot and suspending a loose cloth down the back of the head, minor chips
10½in. (27cm.) high, stone stand