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LOT 68 A Pair of Japanese Carved Gilt Wood Komainu and Shishi Guard...

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A Pair of Japanese Carved Gilt Wood Komainu and Shishi Guardian Lions Edo period (1615-1868), each lion is carved from a single piece of wood, their manes and eyebrows are painted in green and blue pigments with gilt highlights over the rest of the body, their eyes are detailed with black irises outlined in brown, back bones are articulated on both animals, and they share the same style fluffy tail pointing upwards and fanning to the sides, the guardian pair includes a shishi with curly mane and eyebrows and open mouth and a komainu with a horn and a flowing mane, both seated on raised carved wooden rectangular bases. DOA 25 1/2 x 10 x 17 1/2 in. These guardian lions would originally have flanked the entrance to a Buddhist temple or a Shinto shrine in Japan. This tradition dates back to the Heian period (794-1185 CE), where pairs of guardian figures were placed to warn off evil spirits from entering the temple and causing harm to the sacred deities inside. The guardian on the right is a lion shishi and on the left a lion-dog komainu distinguished by a single horn. The shishi has an open mouth, symbolically intoning the syllable "a", while the komainu has a closed mouth, indicating the syllable "un," the first and last letters of the Sanskrit alphabet symbolizing the entirety of the cosmos. From the Collection of the late Keith Stanley, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Duke University, North Carolina 品相报告: Overall good condition; some scattered surface losses to pigments and gilt; some rubbing and slight nicks to edges; minor stress cracks to wood.

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