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Large Chinese Sancai Glazed Pottery Figure of a Lokapala

Tang dynasty, AD 618-907

Description

Posed standing upon a bull with arm raised displaying his power.
Height: 32 ¼ inches (82 cm.)
Ex: Private American Collection (acquired in the Far East in the mid1950s)
Similar examples: Laufer, Chinese Clay Figures, pl. LII from the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; Sekai Toji Zenshu, Vol. 9, figs 76 and 117 from the Tenri Sanko-kan Museum, Nara: Hints, Chinese Tomb Figures, pl. 108; and the Berlin Chinese Art Exhibition, 1929, No. 366 from the Goldschmidt Collection; and Essayan Collection, England.
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