The present head, though smaller, is comparable to the widely published limestone head of Buddha in the Avery Brundage Collection and included by René-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture, Japan, 1974, p. 214, no. 106. See, also, Longmen Caves Research Institute (ed.), Longmen Liusan Diaoxiang Ji (The Lost Statues of the Longmen Caves), Shanghai, 1993, p. 49, no. 56, for the same head. The Brundage head, dated to the early 8th century, is specifically located to the Leigu Cave complex in the Eastern Hills of Longmen, Henan. From Japanese publications which show the head in situ before 1929, when it was included in the Berlin Exhibition of Chinese Art, it appears that it was once attached to the principal Buddha in the main cave of the complex. It is possible that the present head originated from the same complex of caves

Other comparable heads of similar size are illustrated in Longmen Caves Research Institute (ed.), ibid. See p. 55, no. 63, for one in the Victoria and Albert Museum and p. 57, no. 65, for one in the Tokyo National Museum

Compare, also, the heads of the two stone bodhisattva figures sold in these rooms, September 21, 1995, lots 301 and 302