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16      A GILT!BRONZE ALTAR STAND
                      TANG DYANASTY

                      ਽   䞲䢼䛾҈׼㜧Ꮤ
                      the rectangular pedestal supported on high corner legs joined by struts with barbed aprons, the front corners
                      with balustrades set with lotus-bud finials, enclosing two muscular lokapalas flanking a central figure of an
                      acolyte or Buddhist monk standing atop a lotus to the center, a fragment of a figure, possibly an apsara, to the
                      central front face, three rectangular apertures that would have originally supported a trinity of principal figures
                      behind, the reverse with later-inscribed dedicatory inscription translating to ‘respectfully made by Lin Shide for
                      parents on the 8th day in the 10th month of the 1st year of Xiping during Northern Wei’
                      Width 6½in., 16.5 cm

                      $ 40,000-60,000



                      ᒹߍ䟅᪴喟
                      ๔偼⛆ᎠٰᎡ࡮ᰵژᬒ ᳄ፘᓤ◧ώ❣⃺ጞ䏘Ɽᆙ̭ܴⱫ⩌᪙䕍ᄷ׼



































                      PROVENANCE                         ҳ⎽
                      Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).   ट㦯㟙ɀ⧷㗜̶̓喍1978Ꭱ䕊喎ᩣ㫼























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