A polychrome limestone head of a crowned bodhisattva, Liao dynasty | 遼 石灰石雕加彩菩薩首像
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March 17, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description
A polychrome limestone head of a crowned bodhisattva
Liao dynasty
遼 石灰石雕加彩菩薩首像
well carved with a serene countenance and a fleshy, round face, crowned with a tall diadem with a repeating ruyi border framing a central wan character above a blossoming lotus, flanked by two trios of cintamani, the diadem picked out with applied red and blue pigment, mounted on a modern base
Height 13 ⅛ in., 33.3 cm
Collection of Monica Zajac de Dobry (d. 2019).
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Monica Zajac de Dobry (2019年逝) 收藏
Compare a limestone head of Avalokiteshvara, sold in these rooms, 16th September 2015, lot 428, with similar treatment of the facial features, tresses, and crown proportions, and another with a similar diadem centered by an om character, sold in our London rooms, 30th October 1987, lot 244.
Stylistically the features and headdress of the present figure relate to the painted clay sculptures of the Liao dynasty in Lower Huayansi in Datong, Shanxi province, which are dated in accordance with 1038, see Zhongguo meishu quanji: Wudai Song diaosu [Complete Series on Chinese Art. Sculpture: Five Dynasties and Song Sculpture], Beijing, vol. 5, 1988, pls 138-41.