A RARE AND LARGE SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY sensitively carved with an elongated face accentuated with downcast eyes below gracefully arched eyebrows, the serene countenance centred with a pronounced long nose, above lips tenderly lifted at the corners in a beatific smile, framed by a pair of pendulous earlobes and hair neatly swept up into a domed ushnisha , the grainy stone of a mottled grey colour, stand 40 cm, 15 3/4 in.
A RARE AND LARGE SANDSTONE HEAD OF BUDDHA NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY sensitively carved with an elongated face accentuated with downcast eyes below gracefully arched eyebrows, the serene countenance centred with a pronounced long nose, above lips tenderly lifted at the corners in a beatific smile, framed by a pair of pendulous earlobes and hair neatly swept up into a domed ushnisha , the grainy stone of a mottled grey colour, stand 40 cm, 15 3/4 in.
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