A polychrome limestone head of a crowned bodhisattva

Liao dynasty

遼 石灰石雕加彩菩薩首像

well carved with a serene countenance and a fleshy, round face, crowned with a tall diadem with a repeating ruyi border framing a central wan character above a blossoming lotus, flanked by two trios of cintamani, the diadem picked out with applied red and blue pigment, mounted on a modern base

Height 13 ? in., 33.3 cm

Collection of Monica Zajac de Dobry (d. 2019).

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Monica Zajac de Dobry (2019年逝) 收藏