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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN The present chimera-form weight has a richly also examples sold at auction, including one
A GILT-BRONZE ‘MYTHICAL BEAST’ textured coat and an animated expression from the collection of S. E. Monsieur Jean
WEIGHT that characterizes cast-bronze animal-form Daridan, sold in our London rooms, 11th
HAN - SIX DYNASTIES figures in the Han to Six Dynasties period. December 1979, lot 49; one sold in these
Bronze weights of this type include a pair in
rooms, 7th November 1980, lot 9; and two from
the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull,
crouching with the muscular body twisting
sharply and the head turned to one side, the Francisco (coll. no. B60B808 and B60B821); sold in these rooms, 6th December 1983, lot
face with a menacing expression with the one from the Schoenlicht Collection and 59 and 61.
mouth open, the lips curling back in a snarl, and another from the Stoclet Collection, both
the eyes wide, a pair of ridged horns pressing illustrated in H. F. E. Visser, Asiatic Art, New $ 30,000-50,000
against the neck, tufts of fur covering the body York, 1952, pl. 68; one from the collection of Mr.
and sweeping outward from the elbows, a pair and Mrs. Eugene Bernat exhibited in Art of the
of feathered wings tucked against the torso, Six Dynasties, China Institute, New York, 1975, 漢至六朝 銅鎏金瑞獸形鎮
wood stand (2) cat. no. 39; one exhibited in Ancient Chinese
Length 2¼ in., 5.7 cm and Ordos Bronzes, Oriental Ceramic Society 來源
and Hong Kong Museum of Art, New York,
PROVENANCE 1990, cat. no 117; and a more elaborate version Von Bergen Auction，斯克蘭頓，1958年
illustrated in Arts of Ancient China, J. J. Lally & Robert L. Shalkop (1922年生) 收藏，此後
Von Bergen Auction, Scranton, 1958.
Collection of Robert L. Shalkop (b. 1922), and Co., March-April 2006, cat. no. 18. Compare 家族傳承
thence by descent.

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