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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

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A STONE HEAD OF BUDDHA

NORTHERN QI-SUI DYNASTY (AD 550-618)

The face is very fnely carved, with bow-
shaped mouth and downcast eyes below
fnely arched brows. The hair is arranged in
tight snail-shell curls over the ushnisha.
12º in. (31.1 cm.) high
$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s London, 7 December 1993, lot 39.

Compare the present head with a similar stone
head, dated to the Northern Qi dynasty, in
the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, illustrated by D. Leidy, Wisdom
Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture
in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
2010, p. 81, no. 10D. See, also, a standing fgure
with a similarly-treated head, also dated to the
Northern Qi, in the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts,
Tokyo, illustrated in Comprehensive Illustrated
Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Sculptures in
Overseas Collections, vol. 3, Beijing, 2005, p. 508.
北齊/隋 石雕佛頭像

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