TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

細節

唐彩繪描金天王俑一對

來源

Sotheby's, New York, 1-2 December 1992, lot 246.

展覽

Tending the Afterlife: Chinese Tomb Art from the Neolithic Period to the Ming Dynasty, The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, 27 September 2008 - 16 August 2009.
Fabled Journeys in Asian Art: East Asia, The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art, July 2011 - January 2012.

拍品專文

Pairs of figures of this type were placed in the entry corridor of tombs, along with pairs of officials and pairs of earth spirits, as evidenced by the location of such figures in the previously undisturbed Tang dynasty tomb of General An Pu discovered at Longmen, Luoyang. See R.L. Thorp, Son of Heaven: Imperial Art of China, Seattle, 1988, pp. 199-205.

A painted pottery lokapala similar to the present figure, elaborately armored and of comparable size (71.1 cm.), is in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and is illustrated in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 1993, p. 293.
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. 666f5 is consistent with the dating of this lot.

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

拍品專文

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