CHINE, DYNASTIE QI DU NORD (550-577)

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TORSE DE BOUDDHA EN CALCAIRE GRIS
CHINE, DYNASTIE QI DU NORD (550-577)
En calcaire gris, représenté debout dans une attitude frontale, vêtu d'une robe monastique aux longues manches, suggérant la forme du corps et retombant sur les chevilles
Hauteur: 72 cm. (28 3/8 in.)

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A GREY LIMESTONE TORSO OF BUDDHA
CHINA, NORTHERN QI DYNASTY (550-577)

Lot Essay

This figure can be related to other similar examples of this period, although with more elaborated robes, some of them illustrated in The Return of the Buddha, Buddhist Sculptures of the 6th Century from Qingzhou, China, Museum Rietberg Zürich 2002, p.154 or 170.

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