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TWO SANCAI GLAZED POTTERY GUARDIAN FIGURES
Tang Dynasty
Each figure dressed in layered armor and standing upon a recumbent
beast supported on a short rockery base, the figure’s head and
hands left unglazed and the remaining surfaces covered with a
combination of green, chestnut and ivory colored glazes.
Each 32 1/2in (82.5cm) high, fitted wood stands

$10,000 - 15,000
唐 三彩武士陶俑兩尊

Provenance
Property from a Beverly Hills Collection, Bonhams, San Francisco, 20
November 2006, lot 6356

出處:
舊金山邦翰斯 2006 年 11 月 20 日，拍品第 6356 號

Another single imposing figure of this type, also shown standing on
a recumbent bull, is illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art - Chinese
Ceramics I: Neolithic to Liao, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 119. For another
pair standing atop demons, see Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. One,
Tokyo, 1976, p. 79, pl. 209.

These imposing military-like guardian figures are remarkable for their
fine modeling and detailed armor. Positioned at the entrance to the
tomb, such figures with their frowning expressions and imposing
stance warded off evil spirits.

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