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A RARE MARBLE PAINTED-LACQUERED HEAD OF A
BODHISATTVA
Probably Yuan Dynasty
The Bodhisattva’s face deftly carved with a serene expression, with
narrowed eyes, a small mouth and long pendulous earlobes, the hair
dressed into a large chignon and set with a tiara, traces of lacquer and
pigment, stand.
30cm (12in) high. (2).

£30,000 - 50,000
CNY260,000 - 440,000

或元 彩漆理石雕菩薩頭像

Provenance: Galerie Loschengruber, Munich, 1981
A German private collection

來源：1981年購自德國慕尼黑古董商Galerie Loschengruber
德國私人收藏

Compare the curls of the headdress of the present lot with those on a
sculpture of a Bodhisattva, Five Dynasties/Song Dynasty, illustrated by
O.Siren, Chinese Sculpture: From the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century,
vol II, Bangkok, 1998, pl.569.

See a related stone head of Guanyin, Yuan dynasty, which was sold at
Christie’s Paris, 10 December 2014, lot 334.

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