A Sandstone Head of Buddha

NORTHERN QI DYNASTY

細節

A Sandstone Head of Buddha
Northern Qi Dynasty
The full face well carved with dimpled chin, small mouth, straight nose and closed, elongated eyes beneath thin, arched brows, the hair carved as tight curls
12¾in. (32.4cm.) high, metal stand

來源

Christie's, New York, 28 March 1996, lot 193

拍品專文

The tightly curled hair and full face with straight nose and closed, elongated eyes are very similar to those of a complete standing figure of Buddha, illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen (Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Buddhist Sculpture II), National Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1990, p. 78, no. 74.