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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF GEORGE C.C. HO
1037
A CARVED LIMESTONE HEAD OF A BODHISATTVA
NORTHERN ZHOU-SUI DYNASTY, 6TH-7TH CENTURY
The face is carved with half-closed eyes and a slight smile, beneath an elaborate openwork headdress
carved with looped and pendent beaded chains at the front, and tied at the back with ribbons with ends
trailing at either side of the face, with some traces of red pigment.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, metal stand
$15,000-25,000

PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 3 June 1988, lot 319.
北周/隋 石灰岩雕菩薩頭像

(another view)

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