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223 AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE BRONZE DRAGON-FORM SUPPORT
HAN DYNASTY
漢 銅盤龍形座

strikingly cast, the mythical creature coiled with its head raised high and its right foreclaw grasping its long curled tail
sweeping under its body, its face rendered with an upturned snout, wide open mouth, rounded bulging eyes and back-swept
pointed ears, its long scaly neck extending to a pair of folded wings issuing from its shoulders, its sinuous body set with a
short spike for insertion, the surface with areas of malachite encrustation
Length 4½ in., 11.5 cm

$ 80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE 來源
C.T. Loo, New York, 7th December 1946. 盧芹齋，紐約，1946年12月7日
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

EXHIBITED 展覽
Exhibition of Chinese Arts, C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 1941, 《Exhibition of Chinese Arts》，盧芹齋，紐約，1941年，
cat. no. 180. 編號180
出版
LITERATURE
‘Oak Park Resident Keeps Priceless Collection of Oriental 〈Oak Park Resident Keeps Priceless Collection of Oriental
Art in Bomb Shelter’, Chicago Tribune, 7th September Art in Bomb Shelter〉，《芝加哥論壇報》，1952年9月7日，
1952, part III, p. 1. 部III，頁1

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