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Other related examples include a gilt-bronze
dragon with finely incised scales detailing the
body and a thin serrated edge following the spine,
formerly in the collection of Frederick Mayer,
included in the exhibition Mostra d’arte cinese
[Exhibition of Chinese art], Venice, 1954, cat. no.
159, and subsequently sold at Christie’s London,
24th-25th June 1974, lot 143; one exhibited in
Animals and Animal Designs in Chinese Art,
Eskenazi, London, 1998, cat. no. 15; a larger
example without gilt, included in the exhibition
Six Dynasties Art from the Norman A. Kurland
Collection, Eskenazi, London, 2018, cat. no. 10;
and another modeled with the head and right
forearm raised, in the Princeton University Art
Museum, exhibited in Art of the Six Dynasties,
China House Gallery/China Institute in America,
1975, cat. no. 38.

For Tang dynasty examples, see a slightly larger
gilt-bronze dragon, modeled in a striding stance,
with finely incised scales and a serrated dorsal
fin, exhibited in Gilded Dragons. Buried Treasures
from China’s Golden Ages, British Museum,
London, cat. no. 53, together with one supported
on its forearms, excavated in Caochangpo, Xi’an,
Shaanxi province, cat. no. 52; a larger example
modeled in a climbing pose, in the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, exhibited in Arts of the T’ang
Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum, Los
Angeles, 1957, cat. no. 102; a smaller example with
a simpler casting, in the Metropolitan Museum
of art, acc. no. 30.37.2; and another from the
Szekeres Collection, exhibited in Chinese Art: The
Szekeres Collection, J.J. Lally & Co., New York,
2019, cat. no. 30.

若論唐代近例，可比一銅鎏金龍，尺寸稍大，作闊步
狀，鱗片刻畫精細，帶鋸齒形背鰭，展於《Gilded
Dragons. Buried Treasures from China’s Golden
Ages》，大英博物館，倫敦，編號53，同錄一
龍，前臂俯撐，陝西西安草場坡出土，編號52；及
一例，亦稍大，作攀爬狀，波士頓美術館藏，展於
《Arts of the T’ang Dynasty》，洛杉磯郡立博物
館，洛杉磯，1957年，編號102；另一例稍小，鑄
造較簡，大都會藝術博物館藏，編號30.37.2；仍有
一例，澤柯爾斯雅蓄，展於《亞諾•澤柯爾斯珍藏中
國藝術》，J.J. Lally & Co.，紐約，2019年，編號
30。