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8154 Provenance
A SHANDONG LIMESTONE TORSO OF BUDDHA Sotheby’s New York, 22 September 2015, lot 19
Eastern Wei dynasty, 6th century
The slender torso carved with a voluminous chest and slightly bent Exhibited
right knee, dressed in sheer layers of robe leaving the chest bare, Compassion and Fascination. Ancient Chinese Buddhist Sculptures,
simple drapes falling fluently from the left shoulder following contours City University of Hong Kong, 2004, cat. no. 5
of the body, the stylized swirling and writhing lines radiating from his
right knee, his left arm bent with the hand emerging in aradamudra. Literature
17in (43cm) high Jin Weinuo, hongguo udai Foxiang (Ancient Chinese Buddhist
Sculpture), Beijing, Wenwu Press, 2002, no. 19, p. 182
$15,000 - 20,000 Ji Chongjian, A iscourse on the iscrimination of the Sculptures of
Chinese Buddhas, Taiwan, 2002, p. 125
六世紀東 石灰 佛 像 Lucie Chang Yue (ed.), Compassion and Fascination, Hong Kong,
2003, pl. 5, p. 14

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