CHINESE TERRACOTTA BRICK DEPICTING BUDDHA - TL TESTED. Northern Wei Dynasty, Ca. AD 386-534 A terracotta brick portraying a seated Buddha performing the Abhaya mudra. The deity is backed with a halo in the form of a lotus and is dressed in voluminous robes. Size: 235mm x 170mm; Weight: 4.26kg. Provenance: East Anglian private collection; formerly acquired in the early 1990s in Hong Kong. This piece has been precisely dated using a thermoluminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla.