A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE DRY-LACQUER HEAD OF AVALOKITESVARA TANG DYNASTY superbly and sensitively modelled as the sensuous full face of a the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara portrayed with slender bow-shaped eyes and hooded eyelids casting a meditative and powerful aura with the downcast omniscient black glass pupils, all below arched eyebrows depicted with exquisitely and fluidly carved lines tapering at the ends, the curved contours of the eyebrows juxtaposed with the well defined straight nose and a small bud mouth picked out with traces of red pigment, all framed by neatly coiffed hair gathered into a high chignon and thick swirling tresses trailing along the rounded cheeks, accompanied by long pendulous earlobes with elongated vertical slits, the head with an attractive variegated slate-grey lacquer patina, the back of the head left open revealing hemp layers on the interior, wood stand 43.3 cm, 17 in.
A MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE DRY-LACQUER HEAD OF AVALOKITESVARA TANG DYNASTY superbly and sensitively modelled as the sensuous full face of a the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara portrayed with slender bow-shaped eyes and hooded eyelids casting a meditative and powerful aura with the downcast omniscient black glass pupils, all below arched eyebrows depicted with exquisitely and fluidly carved lines tapering at the ends, the curved contours of the eyebrows juxtaposed with the well defined straight nose and a small bud mouth picked out with traces of red pigment, all framed by neatly coiffed hair gathered into a high chignon and thick swirling tresses trailing along the rounded cheeks, accompanied by long pendulous earlobes with elongated vertical slits, the head with an attractive variegated slate-grey lacquer patina, the back of the head left open revealing hemp layers on the interior, wood stand 43.3 cm, 17 in.
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