artist: unknown
location: in front of Asian Civilisations Museum
patron: Dr & Mrs James Khoo
Straits Times story of March 13, 2004, quoted Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan as saying that the works "served to remind Singaporeans that the nation's well-being is dependent on 'scholarship and integrity, loyalty and bravery'".
In Ming China, such figures are generally reserved for use along the pathway to princely tombs.
text of the label:
on southern figure
[in English & Chinese}]
Figure of Military General
Ming period (1368 - 1644) or earlier
China
gift of Dr & Mrs James Khoo of Neurological Surgery Pte Ltd
on northern figure
[in English & Chinese]
Figure of a Civil Official
Ming period (1368 - 1644) or earlier
China
gift of Dr & Mrs James Khoo of Neurological Surgery Pte Ltd