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A LIMESTONE FRAGMENT OF A BUDDHA HEAD Northern Qi Dynasty image 1

A LIMESTONE FRAGMENT OF A BUDDHA HEAD Northern Qi Dynasty image 2

A LIMESTONE FRAGMENT OF A BUDDHA HEAD Northern Qi Dynasty image 3

PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN AND SIMONE HARTMAN COLLECTION

Lot 124

A LIMESTONE FRAGMENT OF A BUDDHA HEAD
Northern Qi Dynasty

Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art including the Francine and Bernard Wald Collection of Fine Snuff Bottles, Part I

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT

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A LIMESTONE FRAGMENT OF A BUDDHA HEAD

Northern Qi Dynasty
The oval face fragment carved with a serene and benign expression, the broad nose rising to arched brows above downcast eyes with half-closed lids, with small plump lips creased at the corners, the hair depicted with individual tightly curled coils exposing the proper right ear.
8 1/4in (21cm) high;
13 1/4in (33.6) high with stand

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北齊青石佛首殘件

Provenance
Sotheby's London, 7 June 2000, lot 25
The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection

來源
倫敦蘇富比拍賣行，2000 年 6 月 7 日，拍品編號 25
艾倫與西蒙·哈特曼伉儷珍藏

A similar example with traces of pigment and gilding in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is published on the museum's website, accession number 2001.422, where the curator noted "This head probably comes from Shandong or Hebei province. Many comparable examples were unearthed from the ruins of temples in Qingzhou, Shandong, in 1996, and in Linzhang, Hebei, in 2012."

Compare the very similar Buddha head unearthed from the pit at the former Longxing Temple, Shandong province, illustrated in the catalog of the exhibition Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002, pp. 140 and 143, no. 27C.

For another example, see Sotheby's London, 8 December 2022, The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung, Part II, lot 192.

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