A MONUMENTAL AND EXTREMELY RARE STUCCO HEAD OF BUDDHA LIAO DYNASTY |

the sensuous full face with slender bow-shaped eyes and hooded eyelids casting a serene and meditative aura with downcast omniscient black glass pupils, all below evenly arched eyebrows tapering at the ends issuing from the broad straight nose and small bud mouth with full lips above a double chin, the forehead centred with a faint circular indentation that once held a jewelled urna, all below the hair and domed ushnisha with traces of the neatly coiffed hair remaining on the forehead and on the sides around the pendulous earlobes, the top of the head and the side of the ushnisha revealing hemp layers underneath, traces of paint, stand