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also standing with one foot propped on a branch, sold twice in our London rooms, first on 29th June 1976, lot 33, and then on 19th
December 1980, lot 182; a pair of dancing men clad similarly to the present set but each with a Buddhist lion underfoot, sold
in these rooms, 19th November 1982, lot 103; and a turbaned dancing figure attributed to the 13th-15th century in the collection of
the Musée Cernuschi, included in the exhibition, Bronzes de la Chine impériale des Song aux Qing, Musée Cernuschi, Paris, 2013,
cat. no. 101. Contemporaneous Ming dynasty bronze arrow vessels in the form of Central Asian dancing men also exist, including a
16th-17th century vase in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum published in Philip K. Hu, Later Chinese Bronzes: The Saint
Louis Art Museum and the Robert E. Kresko Collections, Saint Louis, 2008, pl. 13.

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