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he particularly expressive treatment of the
stone is consistent with Buddhist stone
Tsculptures produced during the Sui and
early Tang periods. Compare an earlier fragmentary
relief head of a seated monk, believed to have come
from the Northern Xiangtangshan Caves, formerly in
the Yamaguchi Collection, now in the Osaka Municipal
Museum of Art, included in the exhibition Chinese
Buddhist Stone Sculpture. Veneration of the Sublime,
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 1995, cat.
no. 44. A related Tang dynasty head of a monk, in the
National Museum, Stockholm, is illustrated in Osvald
Sirén, Kinesiska och Japanska Skulpturer och Malningar,
Nationalmuseum, [Chinese and Japanese Paintings in
the National Museum of Stockholm], Malmo, 1931, pl. 26.

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