Head of a Buddha
Bronze
Head of a Buddha
CHINA
The sculpture is believed to have been unearthed from Hotan in Xinjiang. The head is obviously male, since a mustache is visible and other facial features include almond-shaped eyes and a well-defined nose. Well combed hair is raked back and confined with a band around the middle before forming a flattened topknot. There was originally a mandorla behind the statue but only a small part remains on one side of the head. The bronze statue is hollow and the material that was used to shape it is still present in the interior.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 416.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Head of a Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 416.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Head of a Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:416.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Head of a Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 416).
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