AN EMBOSSED AND CAST COPPER FIGURE OF A DVARAPALA

Description:

China, 18th ct.
H. 43 cm
Standing in rigid posture on a later separate hammered base, both hands in tarjanimudra, wearing armour, skirt, tunic with wide sleeves floating in the air, his cold-gilded face displaying a severe expression with open eyes below raised eyebrows, moustache and goatee framing his lips and chin, painted facial details, his hair combed in a chignon and secured with a separate embossed five-leaf tiara decorated with a pair of floating ribbons.
Kemper Collection, sold Christie's Amsterdam, 11.10.1994, lot 265 - South German private collection
Minor traces of age, attributes lost