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THBChinese Qing Dynasty Gilt Wood Guardian Statue - Weituo
Lot 93b
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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East Asia, China, late Qing Dynasty, ca. 18th to early 19th century CE. A sizable wooden guardian statue depicting Weituo (also Bodhisattva Skanda in Buddhism), a protective warrior deity dressed in ornate armor and standing atop a red platform adorned with a dragon and clouds. He presents with a forward lean, holds one hand above a missing sword, and places the other on his hip. His chainmail-style armor features plates on his thighs and arms, vambraces with dramatically curved protrusions, a lengthy skirt, and a thick cuirass. A carved-out slot behind the back-panel acts as a votive shrine that permitted one to insert offerings. His stylized countenance features slender eyes, puffy cheeks, and smirking lips beneath a 'feather'-topped helmet adorned with stars and petite flowers. The warrior is covered in thin linen with red, brown, and black pigments accentuating certain features, and the entire figural carving is covered in fine gilding. Size: 18.75" L x 18.5" W x 34.875" H (47.6 cm x 47 cm x 88.6 cm); 42.125" H (107 cm) on included base.
For a stylistically similar example from the Ming Dynasty, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 47.74.
Provenance: private Newport Beach, California, USA collection
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#148556Red base has a few stable fissures, chipping to pigment, and loss to top of dragon snout. Original weapon under left hand missing. Figure has repair to left vambrace protrusion. Removable panel on verso restored. Nicks and abrasions to linen layers, limbs, armor, chest, face, and helmet, with several stable fissures, chips and fading to gilding and original pigmentation, and softening to some finer details. Nice earthen deposits and great traces of original pigment and gilding throughout.Condition
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