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116 AN EXCEPTIONAL GILT-BRONZE DRAGON
SIX DYNASTIES
六朝 銅鎏金龍
superbly modeled, the striding dragon cast in suspended movement, its elongated sinewy body raised on four powerful
limbs terminating in three-clawed paws, trailed by a long curling tail, the imperious head held high and proud atop a slender
S-shaped neck, with a single horn above protruding oval-shaped eyes and a long upturned snout exposing its sharp fangs, the
body and mane finely detailed with neatly incised lines, richly gilded and with traces of malachite encrustation
Length 5 in., 12.7 cm
$ 100,000-150,000
PROVENANCE 來源
Tonying & Co., New York, 15th February 1946. 通運公司，紐約，1946年2月15日
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
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. 版III，頁1
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