CHINE, DYNASTIE TANG (618-906 AP. JC)

Compare the current torso to another one (although more elaborated) of the Tang dynasty, made of marble and illustrated in The Art of Contemplation - Religious Sculpture from Private Collections, National Palace Museum, Taipei 1997, p.187, pl.81 ; another sandstone torso from the Tien Lung Shan Cave XXI, illustrated in R-Y. Lefebvre d'Argencé, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture - The Avery Brundage Collection - Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, New York and San Francisco 1974, p.218, pl.108, shows the same posture and a similar cloth