NORTHERN QI DYNASTY (AD 550-577)

Details

A CARVED STONE HEAD OF A BODHISATTVA
NORTHERN QI DYNASTY (AD 550-577)
8 5⁄8 in. (21.9 cm.) high, stand

Provenance

Private Western collection.
Collection of G. Liampo.
Roger Keverne, London, 4 February 2008.

Literature

Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics - Winter Exhibition, London, 2007, pp. 128-29, no. 113.

Exhibited

London, Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics - Winter Exhibition, 2007.

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Lot Essay

For a sculpture with very similar facial features in The Metropolitan Museum of Art see J. Watt, The Arts of Ancient China, New York, 1990, p. 52, fig. 63. See, also, a related bodhisattva with similarly rendered hair, small mouth and sharp nose illustrated in W. Watson, The Arts of China to AD 900, New Haven, 1995, p. 150, fig. 245.

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