A MASSIVE GILDED BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANDI MING DYNASTY The standing figure wearing an elaborate helmet and armour bound with straps issuing from the mouths of monster masks, including a large, upside-down mask held at the waist by the belt, a pelt suspended from its double horn, with further monster masks at the shoulders and a celestial scarf billowing behind the head and trailing down the sides, his hands held before him as if to rest atop a sword (now missing), extensive dark red lacquer and cold gilding, minor losses--39 1/4 in. (99.6cm.) high, wood stand
A MASSIVE GILDED BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANDI MING DYNASTY The standing figure wearing an elaborate helmet and armour bound with straps issuing from the mouths of monster masks, including a large, upside-down mask held at the waist by the belt, a pelt suspended from its double horn, with further monster masks at the shoulders and a celestial scarf billowing behind the head and trailing down the sides, his hands held before him as if to rest atop a sword (now missing), extensive dark red lacquer and cold gilding, minor losses--39 1/4 in. (99.6cm.) high, wood stand
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