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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A DRAGON The Tang Emperor Xuanzong was a fervent Daoist and dispatched envoys
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) each year to perform this ritual, where dragons were thrown into sites along
Cast with feet splayed as if mid-stride, the dragon has a long snout, curved with prayers, in order to communicate with gods (collections.artsmia.org/
neck, and straight ridged body covered in scales. The neck and back are set art/12028/dragon-china). Another similar Tang dynasty example with curved
with pierced tabs. back in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was exhibited in Arts of the T'ang
Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 1957, cat. no. 102. A
6q in. (16.6 cm.) long, acrylic stand
Six Dynasties example from the Frederick Mayer collection was included in
the exhibition Mostra d'arte cinese, Venice, 1954, no. 159, and subsequently
$25,000-35,000
sold at Christie's London, 24-25 June 1974, lot 143. See, also, the very similar
Six Dynasties-period gilt-bronze dragon sold at Christie’s New York, 10
PROVENANCE:
Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Morse Collection, New York, 1980s. December 1987, lot 25.
Andrew Kahane, Ltd., New York, February 1993.
Anthony H. N. Schnelling Collection, New York, and thence by descent.
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A bronze dragon of slightly smaller size (41 in.) with similarly rendered Ϝ源
scales and curved back is in the collection of the Minneapolis Museum of %S "MFYBOEFS .PSTF伉儷珍藏
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Art, gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton, accession number 98.173 where it is
dated to the 9th century. The curator notes that small bronze dragons of this "OESFX ,BIBOF
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
740
A GILT-BRONZE 'SEVEN BUDDHAS' VOTIVE GROUP
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The ornament depicts the Seven Buddhas of the Past seated in a fan-shaped
arrangement created by the open framework of lotus tendrils and buds issuing
from a leaf.
4¬ in. (11.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box and lacquered wood stand

$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE:
Galaxie Art (B. K. Wong), Hong Kong, 30 October 1985.

私人珍藏
唐 銅鎏金七世佛像
來源:
Galaxie Art (王炳權), 香港, 1985年10月30日
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