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9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 599

A SMALL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A GUARDIAN, TANG DYNASTY
Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

A SMALL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A GUARDIAN
TANG DYNASTY
唐 銅鎏金天王立像

the figure cast in full body armor stepping on a small kneeling figure, with a high topknot, fierce expression, curly mustache and
shorn beard, the celestial sashes billowing about the body, all raised on an integral naturalistic base, mounted on a modern stand,
Japanese wood box (3)

Height 3¼ in., 8.3 cm

Exhibition
Shitsuyubushō [All With Buddha Nature], Kosetsu Museum of Art, Kobe, 2017, cat. no. I-13.

展覽
《悉有仏性》，香雪美術館，神戶，2017年，編號I-13

Catalogue Note
Compare a related bronze figure of a guardian standing atop a demon, from the collection of Langdon Warner, attributed to
the Tang dynasty, illustrated in Chinese Buddhist Bronzes: A Loan Exhibition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1950, cat. no. 89

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