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Tête de gardien de temple en bois polychrome, Chine, fin XIXe

Le regard frappe d'abord, avec des yeux noirs et brillants sous des sourcils épais, une bouche charnue au rouge éteint, un front noué. Le visage est d'un blanc crayeux, parcouru d'un fin craquelé, et la couleur s'écaille davantage sur la coiffe, où un bandeau lie-de-vin ceint une masse gris-bleu dans laquelle se devine une tête d'animal. Une oreille large, un ornement rond d'où tombe une mèche complètent le profil. Portée par une tige, la tête se dresse sur un socle cubique noir.

Dans les temples bouddhiques chinois, une salle est d'ordinaire consacrée aux Quatre Rois célestes, gardiens des quatre directions, figurés en lourde armure. La galerie parle ici d'un gardien de temple sans nommer le personnage, et rien ne permet de dire s'il s'agit d'un roi céleste, d'un gardien de porte ou d'une autre figure protectrice. On ignore aussi si la tête fut sculptée seule ou détachée d'une statue entière. La datation à la fin du XIXe siècle et l'origine chinoise sont celles que donne la galerie.

Époque
Fin du XIXe siècle, selon la fiche
Matière
Bois peint
Style
Art d'Asie, Chine selon la fiche
Dimensions
l. 20 × h. 52 × p. 22 cm, selon la fiche
État
En l'état
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The gaze strikes first, with glossy black eyes beneath heavy brows, a fleshy mouth in faded red and a knotted forehead. The face is chalk white, crossed by a fine craquelure, and the colour flakes more freely on the headdress, where a wine-red band encircles a blue-grey mass in which an animal's head can be made out. A broad ear and a round ornament from which a lock falls complete the profile. Carried on a rod, the head rises above a black cubic base.

In Chinese Buddhist temples a hall is usually devoted to the Four Heavenly Kings, guardians of the four directions, shown in heavy armour. The gallery speaks here of a temple guardian without naming the figure, and nothing allows one to say whether it is a heavenly king, a door guardian or another protective figure. Nor is it known whether the head was carved alone or taken from a full statue. The late nineteenth-century date and the Chinese origin are those given by the gallery.

Sources and points to validate
  • La salle des Quatre Rois célestes est un élément habituel des temples bouddhiques chinois ; les rois gardent les quatre directions et sont figurés en lourde armure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Heavenly_Kings
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  • Identification du personnage non établie ; le contexte cité est général et ne prouve pas que la tête représente un roi céleste.
  • Datation fin XIXe et origine chinoise indiquées par la fiche, sans validation indépendante.
  • On ignore si la tête a été sculptée seule ou détachée d'une figure entière.
  • Polychromie d'origine ou reprise, fentes du bois et manques non décrits au-delà de la mention en l'état.

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Tête en bois soclée, représentant un gardien de temple, Chine, fin XIXe

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