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SONG/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 10TH-14TH CENTURY
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TWO RARE SANDSTONE WALL FRAGMENTS OF APSARAS
SONG/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 10TH-14TH CENTURY
Each deeply carved as a celestial female attendant shown in flight, wearing a long skirt and billowing scarf, with a bangle at the wrist, the hair parted in the middle and gathered in loops at the shoulders, one holding a censer, the other holding what may be the stem of a lotus, the face of each carved as if seen from a different angle, the granular stone of somewhat pinkish color, traces of pigment
29 and 27½ in. (73.7 and 69.8 cm.) long, granite stands (2)
SONG/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 10TH-14TH CENTURY
Each deeply carved as a celestial female attendant shown in flight, wearing a long skirt and billowing scarf, with a bangle at the wrist, the hair parted in the middle and gathered in loops at the shoulders, one holding a censer, the other holding what may be the stem of a lotus, the face of each carved as if seen from a different angle, the granular stone of somewhat pinkish color, traces of pigment
29 and 27½ in. (73.7 and 69.8 cm.) long, granite stands (2)
Provenance
Frank Caro, New York, 29 August 1961.
Exhibited
The Columbia University Exhibition of Three Thousand Years of the Ceramic Art and Ancient Sculpture of China from the Sackler Collections, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, November 1962 - January 1963, no. S-7.
Arts of the T'ang Dynasty and Its Antecedents, Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, March 1967, no. 17.
Arts of the T'ang Dynasty and Its Antecedents, Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, March 1967, no. 17.