Head of a Buddha
Limestone
Head of a Buddha
CHINA; Northern Qi dynasty
The sculpture is said to have originated from Xiangtangshan Grottoes in Jinzhong, Hebei. The Buddha has curls in the shape of snail-shells that cover a slight usnisa with hardly any gradation. Both eyes of the figure are almost closed beneath eyebrows that were created by simple incisions. The nose widens at the base and the lips of the mouth are thinly molded above the prominent chin.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 417.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Head of a Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 417.
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, 11:417.
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. 417).
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