Qigxin: Head of a Male Figure
Clay
Qigxin: Head of a Male Figure
CHINA, Xinjiang, Bayingolin
This fragment of a larger figure depicts the head of a middle-aged man with a tangled beard and mustache. The eyebrows are sharply defined, the large eyes hooded and the nose high but broad. The hair is interwound with cloth and tied into a topknot in the style once favored by the Kushans and illustrates how far elements of the Gandharan style have spread along the trade routes. A fragment of the aureole-like backing found on more complete figures is behind the head.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 853.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Qigxin: Head of a Male Figure." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 853.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Qigxin: Head of a Male Figure" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:853.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Qigxin: Head of a Male Figure. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 853).
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