Head of Bodhisattva
- Date
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制作年 AD7
- Title
- セキゾウサイシキボサツトウブ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 石
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
This stone head was once part of larger statue of a bodhisattva which, with its pedestal, is estimated to have stood 1.7 metres tall. The piece is particularly rare and valuable because it has retained part of its original colouring; traces of vermilion, green, blue and other pigments remain here and there, these colours having been painted over a thick coat of white lead.A broad ornamental band, tied above the ears and left to dangle about the shoulders, encircles the head, and the bodhisattva’s hair is bundled into a chignon over which is a crown. The face recalls statues from the cave-temples at Tianlong Shan in the mountains close to Taiyuan in Shanxi province, a series of 22 white sandstone caves active during the Eastern Wei (534-550) and Tang (618-907) dynasties. The eyebrows, broad eyelids, the almond-shaped eyes with the sides turned down, and the small lower lip and full cheeks, are all facial features that share common expressions with the Buddha and bodhisattva statues from Tianlong Shan, though the stone used in this piece is not found in that part of Shanxi province.
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- Head of Bodhisattva
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Quantity 1躯
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