Qigxin: Head of a Heavenly Being
Clay
Qigxin: Head of a Heavenly Being
CHINA, Xinjiang, Bayingolin
The similarities among some of the heads discovered at the Qigxin site have suggested that they may have been created from the same mold and customized with different features, further differentiated by the placing of the head. This head has arched eyebrows, a prominent nose, and a small bow-like mouth in a round face that gazes upward. The curled fringe of hair seems to have been applied to the head before the large ears, which look as if they were later additions.
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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