A BRONZE GUARDIAN

Estimated Value:

1.500 € - 2.500 €

Schätzpreis:

5.500 €

Description:

China, late Ming dynasty
H. 42 cm
The Central Asian looking guardian standing widespread on a rectangular pedestal with both hands firmly holding the halberd, wearing various garments including a mantle fastened around the waist by a belt decorated with utensils, scarf floating around his shoulders with its streamers encircling both arms and their finials falling on the base, pair of trousers and boots, his face displaying a sturdy expression with protruding eyes below bushy eyebrows, aquiline nose, elongated earlobes decorated with separate cast looped rings and his head topped with a specific pointed bonnet.
From an old private collection in southern Germany, by descent in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s supplemented - Small repairs, slightly chipped

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