**A LARGE PARCEL-GILT IVORY HEAD OF BUDDHA

19TH CENTURY

細節

**A LARGE PARCEL-GILT IVORY HEAD OF BUDDHA
19th Century
The face carved with contemplative expression below hair dressed in tight snail curls surrounding an usnisa, the collar lightly incised with lotus sprays and roots and the back incised in archaistic characters with an inscription dating the head to the Dingwei year of the reign of Wanli, corresponding to 1595, the hair gilded, with further traces of gilding
10in. (25.4cm.) high, burlwood stand

拍品專文

The apochryphal inscription is translated on the stand, "For the Hsiang Kuo Buddhist Temple, Honan. Respectfully carved by Liu I-ching in the cyclical year Ting Wei in the Wan Li Period of the Great Ming Dynasty, i.e., A.D. 1595"