Description: A LARGE STONE HEAD OF A LOKAPALA
China, Tang dynasty style
44 cm high
Sculpted in a large boulder of stone, the head covered by an helmet decorated to the front and the sides with flower heads and the back with a vertical band of bottoms, the oval face with a scowling expression with curved eyebrows, aquiline nose and clamped mouth.
Provenance: ambassador Francesco Rausi.