A PAIR OF TANG DYNASTY CHINESE SANCAI EARTH SPIRITS. Each formed as a mythical creature with a horned ferocious face, lion paws and wings, decorated with green, white and yellow glaze, together with stands. 67 & 75cm high. (4) This lot is accompanied by copies of the Thermoluminescence Analysis Reports ref PH037/503 and PH037/504, dated 8 April 2003, consistent with a Tang Dynasty date. Pottery figures of dramatic mythical beasts were created during the 7th and 8th Century China to protect burials at the time. Examples on the scale of the present lot in terms of scale and glazing are exceptional and would have been made to accompany elites of the period into the afterlife.
A PAIR OF TANG DYNASTY CHINESE SANCAI EARTH SPIRITS. Each formed as a mythical creature with a horned ferocious face, lion paws and wings, decorated with green, white and yellow glaze, together with stands. 67 & 75cm high. (4) This lot is accompanied by copies of the Thermoluminescence Analysis Reports ref PH037/503 and PH037/504, dated 8 April 2003, consistent with a Tang Dynasty date. Pottery figures of dramatic mythical beasts were created during the 7th and 8th Century China to protect burials at the time. Examples on the scale of the present lot in terms of scale and glazing are exceptional and would have been made to accompany elites of the period into the afterlife.
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