SUI/TANG DYNASTY (581-907)

Compare to two similar figures from the same period, one illustrated by Jin Shen in Haiwai ji Gangtai cang lidai foxiang: zhenpin jinian tujian (Catalogue of Treasures of Buddhist Sculptures in Overseas Collections Including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Shanxi, 2007, p. 430, the other from a private Japanese collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 14 September 2017, lot 804 (fig. 1).