A PAIR OF GOOD SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF EARTH SPIRITS TANG DYNASTY Each slender beast seated on a pierced rockwork base, both well-modeled with muscular chest and wings rising from their front haunches, one with a glazed snarling leonine face framed by a mane below a pair of curled horns divided by an unglazed central flange, the other with an unglazed ferocious human face flanked by large fan-shaped ears and surmounted by a central conical horn and similar flange, both covered in similarly controlled amber, green and cream glazes, some restoration--30 in. (76.2cm.) high (2)
A PAIR OF GOOD SANCAI-GLAZED POTTERY FIGURES OF EARTH SPIRITS TANG DYNASTY Each slender beast seated on a pierced rockwork base, both well-modeled with muscular chest and wings rising from their front haunches, one with a glazed snarling leonine face framed by a mane below a pair of curled horns divided by an unglazed central flange, the other with an unglazed ferocious human face flanked by large fan-shaped ears and surmounted by a central conical horn and similar flange, both covered in similarly controlled amber, green and cream glazes, some restoration--30 in. (76.2cm.) high (2)
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