A STONE BUDDHA HEAD TANG DYNASTY

the rounded face with a serene expression, the almond-shaped eyes beneath arched eybrows, half-open in a downcast gaze in meditation, set upon a thick neck flaring out towards the shoulders, a neat undulating hairline set with studded curls rising in ordered rows to the domed ushnisha, the ears deeply carved with elongated lobes, the stone of a gray-black color

Acquired in Japan, 1960s.
Thence in the family by descent.