TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Compare a set of similar Tang gilt-bronze figures illustrated in Ancient Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1989, fig, 347, and another very similar pair of bodhisattvas included in the exhibition Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, no. 70. Further comparable Tang gilt-bronze figures of bodhisattvas include the pair from the Frederick M. Mayer Collection sold at Christie's London, 25 June 1974, lot 136; the pair from the Sze Yuan Tang Collection sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 2010, lot 913; and another pair sold at Christie’s New York, 17 March 2017, lot 1023.