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A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF MASSIVE SANCAI-GLAZED AND PAINTED POTTERY LOKAPALA FIGURES
tang dynasty
Modelled in vigorous poses standing on rockwork bases, the figures with unglazed heads and scowling foreign features, one with hair upswept in a high topknot, the other wearing a helmet, one figure with one hand held out with palm facing outward and one clenched in a fist, the other figure with a hand held over a lower clenched fist, both wearing armour and breastplates over long sancai-glazed tunics with fluttering hems, their pants fastened above their knees and covering their tall boots, the details painted in black, red, white and highlighted with gilt, some restoration
41in. (104cm.) high (2)
tang dynasty
Modelled in vigorous poses standing on rockwork bases, the figures with unglazed heads and scowling foreign features, one with hair upswept in a high topknot, the other wearing a helmet, one figure with one hand held out with palm facing outward and one clenched in a fist, the other figure with a hand held over a lower clenched fist, both wearing armour and breastplates over long sancai-glazed tunics with fluttering hems, their pants fastened above their knees and covering their tall boots, the details painted in black, red, white and highlighted with gilt, some restoration
41in. (104cm.) high (2)