A superbly carved rare marble fragmentary head of Shakyamuni Buddha Northern Qi dynasty | 北齊 大理石釋迦牟尼佛首

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A superbly carved rare marble fragmentary head of Shakyamuni Buddha

Northern Qi dynasty

士紳珍藏

北齊 大理石釋迦牟尼佛首

sensitively modelled, the benevolent face depicted with a pair of heavily-lidded downcast eyes, an elongated nose flanked by pendulous ears and delicately hemmed lips, all below evenly arched eyebrows, the hair arranged in dense rows of spiral curls rising to a faintly domed ushnisha, stand

27.8 cm