TANG EARTHENWARE PARCEL PAINTED FRAGMENT

Listed from Philip Stites Antiques & 20th Century. Price and availability may change; verify details with the dealer.

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of robust fully realized form, probably one of the “Four Heavenly Kings”, guardian deities associated with Buddhism, wearing elaborate accented armor, arms up at the waist, fists clenching lost ornaments; the whole retaining traces of original polychrome decoration and archeological patination and raised on later lucite plinth Tang Dynasty: 7th to 10th Century Overall

Details

Materials

Lucite

Dimensions

figure only: 5 1/2” deep × 8 1/2” wide × 8” high ( on stand: 13 1/2” high, base of stand: 6” dia.) Download Tearsheet

Dealer

Philip Stites Antiques & 20th Century, Los Angeles

Availability

Available