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Carved Wooden Head of Buddha Carved Wooden Head of Buddha

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Carved Wooden Head of Buddha

Unknown Artist

Art Funded
1950
Dimensions
95 cm
Vendor
Frau W Solf
The head is almost four times life-size and carved in three separate parts using a Japanese technique called Yoseki Zukuri.

It was once painted, lacquered and gilded. The style is characteristic of late Fujiwara sculpture.

Provenance

Wilhelm Solf, German Ambassador to Japan.

Japanese cypress wood

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Landscape with ladies bathing
 Acquired 1953
Landscape with Fishermen and Washerwomen by a Cascade
 Acquired 1997
Landscape with a windmill at Stoke
 Acquired 1936
Landscape with a walled village on a hill above a river
 Acquired 1997
Landscape with a Palace
 Acquired 1948
Landscape with a cottage and farm buildings
 Acquired 1997
Landscape in the manner of Callot
 Acquired 1953
Landscape drawing with figures
 Acquired 1941
Landscape drawing
 Acquired 1932
Landscape Drawing
 Acquired 1957
Landscape
 Acquired 1946
Landscape
 Acquired 1946
Landscape
 Acquired 1946
Landscape
 Acquired 1939
Landscape
 Acquired 1952
Landscape
 Acquired 1935
Lamaistic ritual objects
 Acquired 1933
Lake of Albano
 Acquired 1948
Lady of Pe, Wadjyt, The Giver of Life
 Acquired 1992
Lady Feng and the Bear
 Acquired 1915
Lacquer picnic set
 Acquired 1964
La Procession dans une Eglise Espagnole
 Acquired 1910
La Géante
 Acquired 2003
La Blanchisseuse
 Acquired 1924
L'Armoire
 Acquired 1924
L'amour en platre (study)
 Acquired 1935
Krauterblatter
 Acquired 1984
Kitchen interior with various figures
 Acquired 1997
King Louis XIV of France with symbols of victory and chained captives
 Acquired 2009
Khmer sculpture
 Acquired 1933
Kendi & jar
 Acquired 2009
Kashmir Censer
 Acquired 2011
Judith Killing Holofernes
 Acquired 1929
Judge of Hell
 Acquired 1917
Joseph Planta & Richard Payne Knight
 Acquired 1933
Joseph Feasts his Brothers Following the Recognition of Benjamin's Innocence
 Acquired 2006
John Davidson & Charles Shannon
 Acquired 1925
Japanese Two-Fold Screen
 Acquired 1931
Japanese stoneware vase
 Acquired 1956
Japanese sculpture
 Acquired 1956
Japanese screen
 Acquired 1922
Japanese prints and woodcut books
 Acquired 1942
Japanese bowl
 Acquired 1910
Jacob's Ladder
 Acquired 1949
Ivory triptych
 Acquired 1926
Ivory pyxis
 Acquired 1924
Ivory pillar barometer
 Acquired 1911
Ivory panel
 Acquired 1958
Ivory leaf of a diptych
 Acquired 1943
Ivory box
 Acquired 1942
Italian Landscape
 Acquired 1918
Isleworth
 Acquired 1929
Islamic panels
 Acquired 1944
Iris appearing to Hypnos
 Acquired 1997
Interior with four men standing round a table
 Acquired 1997
Interior of a Cafe, Stamboul
 Acquired 1916
Inscribed vessel of Utu-Hegal, King of Uruk
 Acquired 1999
Inlaid Bronzes
 Acquired 1934
In the Farnesian Garden
 Acquired 1948
Imamiya Toka Ebisu
 Acquired 1949
Imaginary Alpine Landscape
 Acquired 1946
Image of Imaginations (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
 Acquired 2009
Illustrations to the 'Divine Comedy' by Dante
 Acquired 1919
Illustration to the 'Gesta Romanorum'
 Acquired 1997
Il Prete Genovese
 Acquired 1912
Horn blower
 Acquired 1949
Horae in laudem beatissimae virginis mariae
 Acquired 1912
Hodler Portfolio
 Acquired 1915
Hockley pendant
 Acquired 2012
Histoire Ancienne
 Acquired 1913
Hercules
 Acquired 1922
Headrest
 Acquired 1949
Head with a Beaded Crown and Plume
 Acquired 1939
Head of the Emperor Claudius
 Acquired 1951
Head of St Jerome
 Acquired 1936
Head of Claudius
 Acquired 1965
Head of Augustus, Emperor of Rome ('The Meroë Head')
 Acquired 1911
Head of an old man
 Acquired 1926
Head of a peasant
 Acquired 1997
Head of a negress
 Acquired 1955
Head of a man with a beard, seen from the front
 Acquired 1997
Head of a girl looking down
 Acquired 1997
Head of a girl
 Acquired 1931
Head of a bearded man in a feathered cap
 Acquired 1997
Head from a Statue of a Man
 Acquired 1973
Head and shoulders of a boy in profile to the left
 Acquired 1997
Hand holding Bunch of Flowers
 Acquired 2001
Halsway Court, Somerset
 Acquired 1994
Half-length study of a male nude
 Acquired 1944
Half-length figure seen from the back, turning to face the spectator
 Acquired 1997
Half-length figure of a man
 Acquired 1997
Half-angel of the first coinage of Henry VII
 Acquired 1913
Half figure of a woman
 Acquired 1921
Halabche (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
 Acquired 2009
Gudea, King of Lagash
 Acquired 1931
Grove of Angels
 Acquired 2001
Grey pottery pilaster
 Acquired 1942
Greek Vase: Orestes pursued by the Furies
 Acquired 1917
Greek Coin
 Acquired 1919
Graziella with Bouquet
 Acquired 2001
Grave-furniture (Ornaments of Keszthely type)
 Acquired 1933
Gold-enamelled Pendant Jewel
 Acquired 1956
Gold watch
 Acquired 1924
Gold sovereign of Henry VIII
 Acquired 1929
Gold Pendant
 Acquired 1938
Gold Medalion of Maxentius
 Acquired 1959
Gold enamelled badge
 Acquired 1909
Gold Earring
 Acquired 1963
Gold coins & gold medal
 Acquired 1945
Gold Bracelet
 Acquired 1957
Glenarm Bay and Colin Top & View in Cumberland & View in Borrowdale
 Acquired 1910
Glass goblet
 Acquired 1924
Gion in Kyoto
 Acquired 2005
Gilt metal boss
 Acquired 1916
Gilt lead trial castings
 Acquired 1914
Gigaku Mask
 Acquired 1954
Geraint and Enid
 Acquired 1924
George IV Medal
 Acquired 1915
Funerary vase & figurines
 Acquired 1944
Funerary stela of Ptaherhatef
 Acquired 2006
Frau und zwei Buben in Segelboot
 Acquired 1999
Framlingham
 Acquired 1949
Fragment of gold frieze
 Acquired 1957
Fox-Hunting
 Acquired 1933
Fourth oriental head
 Acquired 1922
Four studies of goats
 Acquired 1997
Four standing female nudes and a child
 Acquired 1997
Four Japanese painted cedar doors
 Acquired 1958
Four Indian miniatures
 Acquired 1941
Four gold rosettes
 Acquired 1963
Four carved wooden panels
 Acquired 1944
Forsake not the law of thy Mother
 Acquired 1917
Fool riding Bird
 Acquired 2001
Fool
 Acquired 2001
Five studies for portraits
 Acquired 1928
Five sketchbooks
 Acquired 1992
Five Russian Revolutionary plates
 Acquired 1991
Fire at the Vinegar Workson the Wensum at Norwich
 Acquired 1905
Figures by the Base of a Column (recto) & Study of a Nude (verso)
 Acquired 1996
Figure of meditating Bodhisattva
 Acquired 1963
Figure of Buddha
 Acquired 1962
Figure of a Running Girl
 Acquired 1941
Figure astride a rearing horse, seen from the front
 Acquired 1997
Female Ghost carrying off a Male Severed Head
 Acquired 1996
Feast Ladle
 Acquired 1949
Fascination of Nature
 Acquired 1998
Ewer
 Acquired 1998
Entrance to the Hotel Splendide, Mentone
 Acquired 1923
Entrance to a Synagogue at Regensburg
 Acquired 1924
Enthroned Virgin
 Acquired 1956
Ensemble from 'The Path of Roses'
 Acquired 2004
Engraving with Two Sphinxes
 Acquired 1909
Engraved gold disc
 Acquired 1942
Engraved glass goblet
 Acquired 2002
Engraved design for tabernacle
 Acquired 1924
English Gold Coins
 Acquired 1950
Enamelled gold medallion
 Acquired 1942
Empress pepperpot
 Acquired 1994
Empress Livia as the Goddess Ceres
 Acquired 2000
Emperor Jahangir giving an Audience
 Acquired 1933
Emiliano Zapata and his Horse
 Acquired 2009
Elvis
 Acquired 2015
Elizabethan ivory seal-matrix
 Acquired 1944
Elgin Amphora
 Acquired 2004
Egyptian Plaster Cast
 Acquired 1958
Egyptian limestone stela
 Acquired 2001
Earthenware Jar (Pithos)
 Acquired 1935
Early Christian Silver Vase
 Acquired 1951
Drum with Owl Face
 Acquired 1949
Drinking glass
 Acquired 2004
Drawings/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawings/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawings, watercolour & cartoons
 Acquired 2005
Drawings
 Acquired 1953
Drawings
 Acquired 1914
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing/ album
 Acquired 1951
Drawing of a man and three ladies
 Acquired 1997
Drawing of a cow & drawing of female nude
 Acquired 2003
Drawing
 Acquired 1949
Drawing
 Acquired 1949
Drawing
 Acquired 1949
Draughtsman depicting the death of a saint
 Acquired 1907
Drachenfels on the Rhine
 Acquired 2002
Dover Castle
 Acquired 1948
Double-sided sheet of Studies
 Acquired 1953
Douarnenez and the Ile Tristan & Stinkweed
 Acquired 1927
Door-knocker with lion-head
 Acquired 1909
Dogs of St Bernard Rescuing a Traveller
 Acquired 1931
Divine Lovers
 Acquired 2001
Dives and Lazarus
 Acquired 1918
Dish
 Acquired 1922
Disegni del Mantegna
 Acquired 1920
Disasters of War
 Acquired 1999
Dipylon pitcher & cup
 Acquired 1915
Dinan: Street Scene
 Acquired 1939
Diana and the Nymphs at the Hunt
 Acquired 1964
Despair (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
 Acquired 2011
Designs for book illustrations
 Acquired 1933
Designs
 Acquired 1932
Design for a wall decoration
 Acquired 1952
Design for a pulpit
 Acquired 1958
Design for a ceiling panel with the Holy Family and angels
 Acquired 1997
Der Teutsch Cicero
 Acquired 1907
Delft ware bowl
 Acquired 1911
Death of a Centaur
 Acquired 1930
Dawn with Trumpet
 Acquired 1924
David and Bathsheba
 Acquired 1997
David and Absalom
 Acquired 1961
Daniel proving Susannah's innocence
 Acquired 1946
Dancing Fool
 Acquired 2001
Dance celebrating a Remission of Taxes
 Acquired 1961
Cylinder seals
 Acquired 1945
Cycladic Figurine
 Acquired 2011
Cupid and Psyche
 Acquired 1957
Cubist Composition
 Acquired 2001
Croquis Japonais
 Acquired 1922
Crookhaven, Co Cork
 Acquired 1957
Covered fluted glass
 Acquired 1992
Coup du départ et embarquement sur les galères & Retour des galères
 Acquired 1932
Cottage
 Acquired 1948
Coronation medal of Ghazi ad-Din Haidar, King of Oudh
 Acquired 1921
Coriolanus receiving the Roman Matrons
 Acquired 1917
Corinth's Monument to Actium (The Guildford or Cornith Puteal)
 Acquired 2003
Corfu: A Lane with Figures
 Acquired 1939
Coptic limestone slab
 Acquired 1942
Copper roundel
 Acquired 1926
Copper peg & limestone tablet
 Acquired 1974
Copper currency shield
 Acquired 1929
Composition & Woman under Tree & after Bellange-Samson
 Acquired 1947
Colombian Antiquities
 Acquired 1955
Collecton of engravings and etchings
 Acquired 1929
Collection of twelve pieces of pottery
 Acquired 1928
Collection of twelve Indian coins
 Acquired 1929
Collection of three seals
 Acquired 1970
Collection of Three Drawings
 Acquired 1952
Collection of Three Drawings
 Acquired 1952
Collection of three bronze vessels
 Acquired 1929
Collection of Swedish Artefacts
 Acquired 1921
Collection of studies and sketches
 Acquired 2003
Collection of sketches
 Acquired 1933
Collection of six woodcuts
 Acquired 1970
Collection of over 600 coins
 Acquired 1988
Collection of Muhammedan coins
 Acquired 1911
Collection of Mexican posters
 Acquired 2008
Collection of lithographs
 Acquired 1915
Collection of jetons and counters
 Acquired 1908
Collection of Japanese ceramics
 Acquired 1980
Collection of Italian medals
 Acquired 1912
Collection of gold jewellery
 Acquired 1960
Collection of Glasses
 Acquired 1938
Collection of five watercolours
 Acquired 1968
Collection of five screen paintings
 Acquired 1927
Collection of Five Etchings
 Acquired 1939
Collection of ethnographic items
 Acquired 2003
Collection of Etchings
 Acquired 1952
Collection of Etchings
 Acquired 1939
Collection of embroidered textiles
 Acquired 2002
Collection of eight seal dies
 Acquired 1963
Collection of eight prints
 Acquired 1988
Collection of eight drawings
 Acquired 1978
Collection of drawings & etchings
 Acquired 1933
Collection of coins, medals, tokens & badges
 Acquired 2006
Collection of Coins
 Acquired 1934
Collection of Chinese porcelain
 Acquired 1909
Collection of Chinese and Japanese scroll paintings
 Acquired 1946
Collection of carvings
 Acquired 1944
Collection of Caricature Drawings
 Acquired 1937
Collection of Bronze Coins
 Acquired 1950
Collection of 95 paintings and drawings
 Acquired 1955
Collection of 9 Egyptian antiquities
 Acquired 1922
Collection of 9 carvings
 Acquired 1971
Collection of 600 Orientalist and illustrated books
 Acquired 1986
Collection of 6 Engravings
 Acquired 1933
Collection of 5 Torcs
 Acquired 1969
Collection of 3 Bodhisattvas and 14 frescoes
 Acquired 1927
Collection of 2599 engraved British portraits
 Acquired 1943
Collection of 250 pieces of Peruvian Pottery
 Acquired 1909
Collection of 25 pieces of pottery & display case
 Acquired 1928
Collection of 23 ethnographical specimens & pieces of jewellery
 Acquired 1972
Collection of 18 books, 21 coins & 8 banknotes
 Acquired 1962
Collection of 12 paintings of scenes in the South Seas
 Acquired 1972
Collection of 12 Greek coins
 Acquired 1965
Coins from the Salcombe Treasure
 Acquired 1999
Coin portrait of Mohur of Akbar
 Acquired 1930
Coin of Septimius Severus
 Acquired 1945
Coin of Septimius Severus
 Acquired 1998
Coin of Anarevitos
 Acquired 2011
Coblentz
 Acquired 1946
Cloaked figure walking to the left
 Acquired 1997
Citole
 Acquired 1963
Circular ornament with a satyr and a candelabrum
 Acquired 1997
Circular brooch & Pair of clasps
 Acquired 1916
Circular badge for a hat
 Acquired 1911
Christopher Lennox-Boyd Collection of Mezzotints
 Acquired 2010
Christ, the Virgin and Symbols of the Four Evangelists
 Acquired 1921
Christ shown to the people
 Acquired 1997
Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and St. John
 Acquired 1921
Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and St. John
 Acquired 1921
Christ on the Cross between the Virgin and St John
 Acquired 1918
Christ on the Cross between Mary and St John
 Acquired 1928
Christ offering his Disciples the Holy Communion at the Last Supper
 Acquired 2001
Christ carrying the Cross
 Acquired 1997
Christ before Pilate
 Acquired 1922
Christ and the Woman of Samaria + sketch for Christ Risen
 Acquired 1997
Choirine Relief
 Acquired 2007
Chinese watercolour
 Acquired 2006
Chinese water pot & Damascus tile
 Acquired 1925
Chinese Porcelain Vase
 Acquired 1933
Chinese Porcelain Figure
 Acquired 1935
Chinese colour prints
 Acquired 1932
Chinese Buddhist Figure
 Acquired 1919
Chilo Lacedaemonius
 Acquired 1977
Chelsea Vase
 Acquired 1930
Charles V
 Acquired 1909
Charles of Egmont, Duke of Gueldres and Elizabeth, Duchess of Gelders
 Acquired 1932
Chalcolithic Figurine
 Acquired 2005
Celtic Desborough mirror
 Acquired 1924
Catalogue of National Treasures of Nara & Notes on Shippo
 Acquired 1947
Carved Wooden Head of Buddha
 Acquired 1950
Carved wooden figure of Amida
 Acquired 1945
Carved whalebone panel
 Acquired 1907
Carved ivory panel
 Acquired 1914
Caricature of a man seen from behind
 Acquired 1997
Cameo Portrait of Claudius
 Acquired 1939
Cameo bust of Octavian
 Acquired 1996
Cameo
 Acquired 1913
Calumny of Apelles
 Acquired 1959
Calamelli Foot
 Acquired 2011
Bust of Charles Townley
 Acquired 1995
Bust of a Zeus Serapis
 Acquired 1970
Bust of a Woman in a Hat, 1644 & Bust of a Man in a Hat
 Acquired 1921
Buntingdon Figure
 Acquired 2000
Buildings with a water-mill, and hills in the background
 Acquired 1997
Builders constructing a house
 Acquired 1997
Buddhist head
 Acquired 1943
Bronze statuette
 Acquired 1955
Bronze Roman vase
 Acquired 1947
Bronze Reclining Banqueter
 Acquired 1954
Bronze Medal
 Acquired 1931
Bronze Helmet
 Acquired 1968
Bronze head
 Acquired 1944
Bronze candlestick
 Acquired 1942
Bronze Buddha
 Acquired 1942
Bridle-bit
 Acquired 1910
Bridge over a Stream
 Acquired 1948
Bramerton Common
 Acquired 1926
Boy and Girl by a Stile
 Acquired 1906
Bonneville, Savoy
 Acquired 1923
Bohemian glass goblet
 Acquired 1942
Bodiless I (Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography)
 Acquired 2009
Boats and sailors
 Acquired 1997
Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter
 Acquired 1937
Bird standing on a Table
 Acquired 2001
Bingen on the Rhine
 Acquired 1946
Bell-Krater
 Acquired 1961
Beheading of St Barbara
 Acquired 1966
Beach Scene with fishing boats
 Acquired 1948
Battle Scene
 Acquired 1954
Basin shaped disc
 Acquired 1913
Basalt Head
 Acquired 1958
Bas-relief of The Triumph of Vespasian from the Arch of Titus, Rome
 Acquired 1992
Banner painting of Guatama Buddha
 Acquired 1944
Ballyvaughan, Evening
 Acquired 1926
Bagpiper
 Acquired 1997
Aztec mask
 Acquired 1926
Axe-Head
 Acquired 1912
Avignon: Palace of Popes and Cathedral
 Acquired 1939
Aureus of the Roman emperor Carausius
 Acquired 2009
Aurelius Urscinus spoons
 Acquired 1994
Astronomical and musical pedestal clock
 Acquired 1992
Astrolabe quadrant
 Acquired 2008
Assumption of the Virgin
 Acquired 1997
Assembly of the Gods
 Acquired 1992
Ascension of Elijah
 Acquired 1997
Artist and his Wife walking in a Landscape
 Acquired 2001
Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography
 Acquired 2011
Armoured knight fighting wild men in a wood
 Acquired 1997
Arion sitting on a dolphin playing a 'lira da braccio'
 Acquired 1997
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