Beschreibung:

A very rare painted sandstone figure of a Bodhisattva China, Northern Qi / Sui Dynasty the stocky masculine deity finely carved in the round in stylised columnar volumes with proportionally large head, hands and feet, standing upon a circular base, dressed in long skirts falling in flattened pleats with ascending curled hems, the waist wrapped in a short apron of tight folds leaving the torso bare but for a shawl around the shoulders with long draped scarves, adorned with a studded necklace with large pendent jewel and long jeweled ribbons intersecting through a large studded medallion at the navel and looping over the knees set with coral sections, studded cabochons and further medallions, the right hand in abhaya mudra and the left hand grasping a section of a pendent scarf, the oval head with finely carved features set in benevolent expression and gentle smile, the plain flat hair rising to an usnisha encircled by a crown of five studded medallions secured by knotted ribbons at the back and flanked by further pendent ribbons trailing down the shoulder, with ample traces of red, green, ochre and black pigments overall