A PAIR OF CHINESE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF GUARDIANS TANG DYNASTY Each depicted standing with...

A PAIR OF CHINESE PAINTED POTTERY FIGURES OF GUARDIANS

TANG DYNASTY

Each depicted standing with one hand raised and the other held at the hip, with pigment and gilt decorating their armour and helmets, their well-defined faces with elaborate moustaches and arched eyebrows, each raised on a shaped base, 64.3cm. (2)

Together with the Original Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence Analysis Report for one figure, sample no.C102h10, dated 15th April 2002.

Provenance: formerly in a European-American collection.