A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF WEITO, China, Ming dynasty, on wood stand. Standing in a martial posture, his right hand supporting a lance while the right is showing the abhayamudra, wearing armour, tunic with flaring sleeves, scarf floating around his shoulders, his face displaying a severe expression with slit eyes below arched eyebrows running into his nose-bridge and his head topped with a helmet decorated with a bird-head to the front - Property from the collection of Prof. Dr med., Dr phil. Hermann Schroeder (1902-1991) and his family - Compare to a similarly cast gilt-bronze guardian figure of Vaisravana, identified by the tower held in his left hand, in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, purchased by the Asian Art Acquisition Fund in memory of Laurence Sickman and illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Art, pp. 86-7, where it is dated Yuan dynasty - Minor wear to gilding, very slightly chipped Feine feuervergoldete Bronze des Weito auf einem Holzsockel CHINA, Ming-Dynastie H. 32,2 cm o. S. Provenienz: Aus der Sammlung von Prof. Dr. med., Dr. phil. Hermann Schroeder (1902-1991) und seiner Familie - Vergoldung mit kleineren Abrieben, wenige sehr kleine Bestoßungen