A SMALL WHITE MARBLE HEAD OF BUDDHA

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A SMALL WHITE MARBLE HEAD OF BUDDHA
TANG DYNASTY

The full face sensitively carved with small mouth, delicate nose and eyes almost completely closed in meditation below the crisply cut brows, the hair and usnisa simply carved--5 3/4 in. (15.cm.) high, wood stand

拍品专文

A small white marble head of similar type, dated Sui Dynasty, is in the Portland Art Museum, Handbook of the Asian Collection, no. 14 and another larger white marble head with similar features, dated Northern Chi Dynasty, in the Morse Collection was included in the exhibition, Spirit and Ritual, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982, Catalogue, no. 55