A Rare Sandstone Relief Head of a Bodhisattva

NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, 5TH-6TH CENTURY

细节

A Rare Sandstone Relief Head of a Bodhisattva
Northern Wei dynasty, 5th-6th century
Probably from Yungang, the elongated face well carved with a benevolent expression, with upturned, smiling mouth above a dimpled chin and narrow eyes diagonally set below the gracefully arched brows, the hair carved in simple waves below the tall crown, the back uncarved, the granular stone of dark, mottled buff tone
14 7/8in. (37.8cm.) high, stand
Falk Collection no. 565.

来源

Mathias Komor, New York, December 1949.

展览

Neolithic to Ming, Chinese Objects - The Myron S. Falk Collection, Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, 1957, no. 15.

拍品专文

The facial features and style of hair and crown on the Falk head relate well to the full figures of kneeling bodhisattva attendents, also identified as being from Yungang, illustrated by H.C. Tseng and R.P. Dart, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, vol. I., 1964, nos. 153 and 154; and also to another figure of a kneeling attendent illustrated in Miho Museum - South Wing, 1997, p. 234, no. 121. For a stylistically similar figure of a bodhisattva shown standing in situ at Yungang, see Zhongguo meishu quanji, daosu bian, 10, Beijing, 1988, p. 145.