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A RARE CAST IRON HEAD OF A LOKAPALA, TANG DYNASTY
奥地利
04月17日 下午5点 开拍 /15天2小时
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A RARE CAST IRON HEAD OF A LOKAPALA, TANG DYNASTYPublished & Exhibited: Weisbrod 30 Years. Part II, Weisbrod Chinese Art, New York, Autumn 2002, no. 10.China, 618-907. Heavily cast, with a fierce expression characterized by a pair of bulging eyes set beneath a prominently furrowed brow, a broad nose, and a wide-open mouth in a gesture of warning. The hair drawn upward into a flame-like topknot.Provenance: Weisbrod Chinese Art, New York, United States, by 2002. Michael B. Weisbrod is a noted scholar of Chinese art, who has published extensively on the subject over a time span of more than fifty years. In 1972, Michael joined his father Dr. Gerald Weisbrod's Asian art gallery in Toronto, Canada. The father-and-son team opened their New York location on Madison Avenue in 1977, and during the next forty-five years the gallery held a significant number of exhibitions, selling to museums and private collectors across the globe, eventually adding further locations in Shanghai and Hong Kong.Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Expected wear, casting irregularities, signs of weathering, deep corrosion, obvious losses. The iron surface exhibiting a rich, naturally grown, russet-brown patina.Weight: 5,587 gDimensions: Height 17.3 cm (excl. stand), 28.2 cm (incl. stand)With an associated composite stand. (2)Lokapala are the Four Heavenly Kings who inhabit the temporal realm, charged with guarding the four cardinal directions and protecting the Buddhist Law or Dharma. They were conventionally represented as powerful, bare-chested guardian figures and generally understood to derive from Gandharan prototype images of Vajrapani, the 'Thunderbolt Bearer', an attendant of the Buddha Sakyamuni and a personification of the power of the Dharma. Vajrapani in turn reflects earlier Hellenistic visual models, notably Herculean or Atlantean figures known from architectural friezes and sarcophagi.Expert's note: Cast iron sculptural heads from the Tang dynasty are exceedingly rare to find, largely owing to the widespread practice of recycling iron figures, which were often melted down and repurposed as weaponry during periods of heightened military demand. As a result, relatively few sculptural works in this material have survived to the present day. Compare a limestone head of a Lokapala dated to the Tang dynasty, 21.5 cm high, at Christie's New York, 17 September 2008, lot 574, sold for USD 35,000 or approx. EUR 44,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing.Literature comparison:Compare a cast iron head of a bodhisattva, dated Song-Yuan dynasty, in the British Museum, registration number 1922,1117.1.Auction result comparison:Type: Related Auction: Sotheby's Paris, 10 June 2021, lot 26Mid-estimate: EUR 17,500 or approx. EUR 21,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A cast iron head of a Luohan, Song dynasty Expert remark: Compare the related manner of casting. Note the size (25.8 cm) and the later dating.

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