Qigxin: Head of a Heavenly Being
Clay
Qigxin: Head of a Heavenly Being
CHINA, Xinjiang, Bayingolin
The head is life-sized and was already missing its body at the time of its discovery by Aurel Stein. The braided hair is arranged into a flat topknot. The wide, staring eyes have lost their original inlay. The raised eyebrows join to define the sharp line of the nose above a mouth with slightly parted lips. Although it was originally painted, analysis shows that fire had destroyed the sculpture’s coloring. The sculpture’s facial features bear little resemblance to the people living around the area of this find and may have been influenced by Gandharan models.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 852.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Qigxin: Head of a Heavenly Being." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 852.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Qigxin: Head of a Heavenly Being" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:852.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Qigxin: Head of a Heavenly Being. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 852).
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