RARE TETE DE GUANYIN EN CALCAIRE GRIS

CHINE, DYNASTIE QI DU NORD (550-577)

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RARE TETE DE GUANYIN EN CALCAIRE GRIS
CHINE, DYNASTIE QI DU NORD (550-577)
Le visage de forme ovale, l'expression sereine et méditative, les yeux mi-clos, les paupières bombées, les sourcils arqués, le nez aquilin, légèrement busqué, la bouche finement ourlée, les lobes d'oreilles étirés, les cheveux ramenés en un chignon, le front ceint d'une tiare ouvragée laissant apparaître une représentation du Bouddha, des rubans retombant de part et d'autre du visage, socle
Hauteur: 27,5 cm. (10¾ in.)

Provenance

Asian Art Market, late 1990's.

Further details

A RARE LIMESTONE HEAD OF GUANYIN
CHINA, NORTHERN QI DYNASTY (550-577)

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Lot Essay

For characteristic stylised headdresses typical of this period, cf. a figure of Bodhisattva, part of a central image on a votive stele from the Simon Kwan Collection, included in the exhibition, In the Footsteps of the Buddha: An Iconic Journey from India to China, Hong Kong, 1998, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 313, no. 101; a carved limestone head of Bodhisattva from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-chen, Chinese Art in Oversea Collections: Buddhist Sculpture, Taipei, 1990, p. 64, no. 59; and standing figure with hands in abhaya and varada gestures in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated by Matsubara Saburo, Chugoku Bukkyo Chokoku Silun, Japan, 1995, vol. II, p. 376.
See also a very similar head of Guanyin from Northern Qi period, sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 29 October 2001, lot 504.

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