A LARGE CHINESE LACQUERED AND GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SKANDA

MING DYNASTY

The figure stands with his feet apart and his hands held before him, wearing an elaborate helmet and suit of armour, with a celestial scarf flowing around his body, decorated all over in red lacquer heightened with gilt, all raised on a lacquered wood stand formed as craggy rocks, the figure 41.3cm, 7kg. (2)

Provenance: Christie's London, 10th November 2015, lot 247.

Cf. Sydney L Moss Ltd, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, no.9 for a related bronze Daoist deity.