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A SMALL WHITE MARBLE HEAD OF
A BODHISATTVA

10TH-11TH CENTURY

The face is carved with full cheeks, a small pursed mouth, bulbous nose and
partially open eyes below the incised curved line of the brows. The hair is
dressed in overlapping, curved segments that are centered by a rosette ‘jewel’
and drawn up into a divided topknot behind a triangular ornament. There are
two small circular sockets in the back of the head.
4æ in. (11 cm.) high, wood stand

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Japan, acquired prior to 1930.
The full cheeks, small mouth and shape of the nose are similar to those of the
face of a large stone fgure of a seated bodhisattva, dated 10th-11th century,
in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by Jin Shen in Hai wai ji
Gang Yai cang li dai fo xiang: zhen pin ji nian tu jian (Catalogue of Treasures
of Buddhist Sculpture in Overseas Collections including Hong Kong and
Taiwan), Shanxi, 2007, pl. 287.

十/十一世紀 大理石雕菩薩頭像

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