J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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A GRAY MARBLE TORSO OF A BODHISATTVA

Northern Qi/Sui Dynasty, circa A.D. 570-590

shown standing on a lotus-pod-shaped plinth, with hips slightly swayed in tribhanga posture, dressed in long monastic robes falling in neat symmetrical folds to the bare feet,  the shoulders draped with a simple shawl ending in long trailing ends tied in a knot across the chest, adorned with long chains of clustered beads hanging from the neck and threaded through a large medallion edged with ‘pearls’ at the waist in front and with the same arrangement of beaded chains emerging from beneath the shawl in back and hanging over the simple lines of the pleated robes and dhoti, above a ‘flaming pearl’ motif carved in relief at the back of the base, the arms draped with long sashes carved at the sides and falling to the base, the partial left hand holding a lotus-petal shaped ritual object, the fine-grained stone of bluish-gray tone streaked in creamy white and with widely scattered darker gray and black fine veining, showing traces of reddish earth on the smoothly finished matte surface.

Height overall 35 inches (88.9 cm)

北齊 / 隋  大理石菩薩立像  高 88.9 厘米

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