Artwork Details
Nationality
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
approximately 42-1/8 x 19 x 9 in.
Dynasty
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Credit Line
Richard M. Fairbanks Endowed Art Fund
Copyright
Collection
Asian Art (Chinese and other Asian)
Color Palette
Provenance
(Eskenazi Oriental Art, Ltd., London, England); {1} purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1997 (1997.1). {2} {1} Its early provenance is identified in IMA Historical Files as having been in a West Coast collection and having come from a famous dealer in London. For information on Eskenazi Oriental Art, Ltd., see the exhibition catalog Eskenazi: Twenty-Five Years, Eskenazi Oriental Art, New York, 12 June-12 July, 1998. See also the interview of Giuseppe Eskenazi in Orientations 26.1, 1995, 105-107. {2} See "Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 1997-8," Archives of Asian Art, volume 51, 1998-1999. 105-118 (illustration 14), and "Principales Acquisitions des Musees en 1997," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1998, p. 40 (illustration 165). IMA Temporary Receipt No. 8760.
Gallery Labels
The curled, right-hand fingers and the bend of the back appear naturalistic, but the exaggerated facial features create a fierce appearance.
Noticing how little the lead glaze ran reveals the superior control of the firing process.
The bull gives scale to the size of this powerful figure and suggests a derivation from the Buddhist guardian of the south, which was the preferred direction for doors, whether imperial or tomb.
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