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A CARVED STONE HEAD OF BUDDHA
6th century or later
With a benign, tranquil expression beneath
bow-shaped eyebrows and tight curls, flanked by
long pendulous ears, the stone of dark-grey and
yellow-ochre tone, wood stand.
21cm (8 1/4in) high. (2).

£2,000 - 4,000
CNY18,000 - 35,000

六世紀或更晚 石雕佛首像

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A STONE FIGURE OF A SEATED LION
Tang Dynasty
The muscular lion carved seated on its hind legs
with extended forelegs and bulging chest, the
head slightly turned to its left, bearing a ferocious
expression with bared teeth and bulging eyes,
the neck covered with a curly mane.
24.8cm (9 3/4in) high.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 44,000

唐 石雕坐獅

Provenance: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer
Exhibition, London, 2003, no.113
A distinguished English private collection

來源：2003年購於倫敦Roger Keverne Ltd.，
「夏季展覽」，編號113
英國顯貴私人收藏

For similar stone figures of a lion, Tang dynasty, see
Trubner, The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty, no.41, in
the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas
City; O.Siren, Chinese Sculpture: From the Fifth to
the Fourteenth Century, pl.435D, in the collection
of the Louvre, Paris; L.Ashton, An Introduction to
the Study of Chinese Sculpture, pl.L; and A.Priest,
Chinese Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, pl.LXXVI, for an example in puddingstone.

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