CHINA, TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

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A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
CHINA, TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The figure shown seated in padmasana on an octagonal, waisted lotus base, and dressed in heavy robes with cascading folds that fall over the front of the base, the face with serene expression and the hair in tight curls over the ushnisha
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high

Provenance

With Shogado & Co., Kyoto, Japan, 1984.

Literature

Osaka Shiritsu Bijutsukan, Aui To no bijutsu, Osaka, 1976, p. 296.
A. Martin, “American Mandarin,” Connoisseur, November 1984, pp. 95 and 99

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This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

The treatment of the drapery, particularly the manner in which it cascades over the circular base, is typical of early Tang marble sculpture. For a very similar example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated to AD 717, see D. Leidy et al., Wisdom Embodied, New York, 2010, p. 175, no. A26.

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