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7 A RARE LIMESTONE RELIEF FRAGMENTARY HEAD OF A BODHISATTVA
NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY

ࡄ偼 ⴠ▝ⴠ䰂㤖㫖仃׼
carved in soft rounded volume, the serene slender face with eyes downcast above a long, straight nose rising
to an elegantly arched carved brow, with full pursed lips in a benign smile above a neatly defined chin, the face
flanked by flat pendulous earlobes, the hair centrally parted, the curved hairline below a tall trapezoidal three-
sided crown carved to the center with a four-petaled floret.
Height 14½ in., 36.9 cm

$ 80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE ҳ⎽
Alice Boney, New York, 19th June 1954. ᙈ叄㊟ɀ咽㔽喑㈽㈱喑1954Ꭱ6ᰵ19ᬒ
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). ट㦯㟙ɀ⧷㗜̶̓喍1978Ꭱ䕊喎ᩣ㫼

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