Lot Essay
While a variety of such red pottery demon-quelling lokapalas exist, this particular example is unusual because of its large size
These lokapalas are depicted in a range of costumes, with particularly detailed and varying epaulets and headdresses, while the idiosyncratic demons are shown in a variety of postures. Similar but smaller examples than the present piece are illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 9, Tokyo, 1961, p. 208, fig. 125; René-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1967, p. 52, pl. XXI; Tokyo National Museum, Illustrated Catalogue of Old Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo, 1953, no. 40; and Annette L. Juliano, Bronze, Clay and Stone, Chinese Art in the C. C. Wang Family Collection, Seattle, 1988, no. 60
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97c83 is consistent with the dating of this lot
These lokapalas are depicted in a range of costumes, with particularly detailed and varying epaulets and headdresses, while the idiosyncratic demons are shown in a variety of postures. Similar but smaller examples than the present piece are illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 9, Tokyo, 1961, p. 208, fig. 125; René-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1967, p. 52, pl. XXI; Tokyo National Museum, Illustrated Catalogue of Old Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo, 1953, no. 40; and Annette L. Juliano, Bronze, Clay and Stone, Chinese Art in the C. C. Wang Family Collection, Seattle, 1988, no. 60
The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test no. C97c83 is consistent with the dating of this lot