Head of Buddha
900–999
- Medium
- gilt bronze
- Dimensions
- Overall: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- Sculpture
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
About
While large Buddhist statues were made mostly in stone during the Goryeo period (918–1392), small ones were made in gilt bronze, as a portable object of devotion by traveling Buddhist monks.