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† A LIMESTONE HEAD OF A BODHISATTVA, NORTHERN QI DYNASTY, 6TH CENTURY
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2024年10月18日 开拍
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? A LIMESTONE HEAD OF A BODHISATTVA, NORTHERN QI DYNASTY, 6TH CENTURY

Expert authentication: Dr. Chang Qing has authenticated this lot, identifying its iconographic and stylistic characteristics as typical of Northern Qi images found in Shandong province. A notarized copy of Dr. Chang’s expertise, dated April 15, 2021, in the State of New York, accompanies this lot.
Dr. Chang holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Kansas and has held prestigious positions, including post-doctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and senior research fellow at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institute. He has conducted extensive research in China, participating in archaeological excavations at various historical sites. Dr. Chang is the author of several influential works, including Compassionate Beings in Metal and Stone: Chinese Buddhist Sculptures from The Freer Gallery of Art (2016) and Light of the Buddha in the Desert: Essays on Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang from 5th-14th Centuries (2012). He is currently a professor at Arts College, Sichuan University.

China, 550-577. Finely carved with a serene, gently smiling expression, this piece exemplifies the calm elegance which is so characteristic of the Northern Qi period. The round face features well-defined details, including heavy-lidded eyes, an aquiline nose, and bow-shaped lips. The hair is gracefully pulled back behind a delicate foliate diadem, further enhancing the tranquil beauty of the sculpture.

Provenance: From a private collection in New York, United States.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Extensive wear, obvious losses, structural fissures, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, nicks, chips.

Weight: 14.4 kg (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 27 cm (excl. stand), 39.6 cm (incl. stand)

Mounted on an modern metal stand. (2)

The Northern Qi style is an indirect interpretation of the Indian Gupta style, particularly the Sarnath school, transmitted to China via the Central Asian trade routes. The adoption of the foreign style reflects the socio-political changes that occurred at the beginning of the Northern Qi period, when its rulers looked to non-Han stylistic traditions. This was in marked contrast to the Northern Wei rulers, who sought to acculturate themselves within the Han polity through a process of Sinicization.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related limestone head of a bodhisattva, also dated to the Northern Qi dynasty, at Sotheby’s London, 13 November 2002, lot 50. Compare a related limestone head of a bodhisattva, also dated to the Northern Qi dynasty, 17.8 cm high, exhibited by J. J. Lally & Co., Ancient Chinese Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions, 14 March-5 April 2014, no. 4.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Bonhams Paris, 26 October 2022, lot 240
Price: EUR 31,875 or approx. EUR 32,500 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rare stone head of Guanyin, Northern Qi dynasty
Expert remark: Compare the related subject and similar facial expressions. Note the near-identical size (25 cm).



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