A pair of small painted pottery earth spirits with silver decoration Tang Dynasty both extremely brightly painted with radiating multi-colored spikes on the shoulders, with a floral pattern and silver vertical stripes down the shoulders and chest, seated upon a rocky base, one figure with a round bearded human face with a single black spiralling horn, painted with leopard spots on the shoulders and zebra stripes on the hind legs, the other figure with a face of a beast with zebra stripes and a pig-like snout and three horns on the head, the shoulders painted with tiger and zebra stripes, his right arm raised as if to strike the snake-like demon squashed beneath the left paw 17 3/4 and 17 in., 45 and 43.2 cm
A pair of small painted pottery earth spirits with silver decoration Tang Dynasty both extremely brightly painted with radiating multi-colored spikes on the shoulders, with a floral pattern and silver vertical stripes down the shoulders and chest, seated upon a rocky base, one figure with a round bearded human face with a single black spiralling horn, painted with leopard spots on the shoulders and zebra stripes on the hind legs, the other figure with a face of a beast with zebra stripes and a pig-like snout and three horns on the head, the shoulders painted with tiger and zebra stripes, his right arm raised as if to strike the snake-like demon squashed beneath the left paw 17 3/4 and 17 in., 45 and 43.2 cm
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