Property from an Important Private Asian Co💮llection 重要亞洲私人收藏
An extremely rare large limestone head of a bodhisattva Sui dynasty | 隋 石灰岩加彩菩薩頭像
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April 22, 03:40 AM GMT
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7,000,000 - 9,000,000 HKD
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Propert💙y from an Important Private Asian Collection
An extremely rare large limestone head of a bodh🦄isattva
Sui dynasty
重要亞洲私人收藏
隋 石灰岩加彩菩薩頭像
the softly rounded face gracefully carved and framed by arched brows extending to a refined aquiline nose, eyes gently cast down above full cheeks and a delicately formed mouth, the gaze half closed in an expression of quiet contemplation, the elega🅰ntly coiffed hair in layers of looped sections with thick strands trailing around the well-formed ears over pierced elongated lobes and gathered high into a double chignon at the crown, the hairstyle decorated with a Dharma wheel painted with traces of gilt above a bed of crimson-painted curlicues, accompanied by furthe🌜r carved florets to either side, the stone smooth with areas of darker patination, wood stand
36 cm
Yamanaka & Co., New York, 1943.
Sotheby's Hong 🎀Kong, 5th A🌌pril 2016, lot 2871.
山中商會，紐約，1943年
香港蘇富比2016年4月5日，編號2871
Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Company, Inc. Now in Process of Liquidation Under the Supervision of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States of America, Yamanaka &aꦇmp; Co., New York, 1943, cat. no. 372.
《Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art Assembled by Yamanaka & Cꦐompany, Inc. Now in Process of Liquidation Under the Supervision of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States of America》，山中商會，紐約，1943年，編號372