Title: Head of a bodhisattva
Object type: Head
Date: late 5th century
Culture: China
Period: Northern Wei dynasty (386–534)
Medium: Sandstone with traces of pigment
Dimensions: H. 14 in. (35.6 cm); W. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)
On block, est: H. 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm); W. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); D. 9 in. (22.9 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Heads, term: Buddhism, term: Bodhisattvas