TWO MASSIVE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE FIGURES OF DEITIES LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY Both figures are powerfully cast with expressive faces set in a grimace, and are shown standing with feet apart and firmly planted on a separate rockwork base. One figure is shown wearing a tall scholar’s cap and a loose robe with long sleeves that fall in heavy folds below the hands raised to hold a tablet cast with a writhing dragon in pursuit of a pearl. The other figure has his hair drawn up under a knotted cloth and wears boots and armor under robes that are secured at the waist with a belt of jade plaques and a long cord tied in a bow and then again in a quatrefoil knot. His hands are raised to hold an implement, likely a tablet, now missing. The head and neck of each figure are richly gilded. The larger 66 ¾ in. (169.5 cm.) high
TWO MASSIVE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE FIGURES OF DEITIES LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY Both figures are powerfully cast with expressive faces set in a grimace, and are shown standing with feet apart and firmly planted on a separate rockwork base. One figure is shown wearing a tall scholar’s cap and a loose robe with long sleeves that fall in heavy folds below the hands raised to hold a tablet cast with a writhing dragon in pursuit of a pearl. The other figure has his hair drawn up under a knotted cloth and wears boots and armor under robes that are secured at the waist with a belt of jade plaques and a long cord tied in a bow and then again in a quatrefoil knot. His hands are raised to hold an implement, likely a tablet, now missing. The head and neck of each figure are richly gilded. The larger 66 ¾ in. (169.5 cm.) high
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