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Ltd., London, 1998, cat. no. 15. A larger ungilt
example was included in the exhibition Six
Dynasties Art from the Norman A. Kurland
Collection, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 2018,
cat. no. 10. A small number of slightly larger
gilt-bronze striding dragons in a variety of
striding postures is known. Compare two
with the forearms lowered to the ground, as
if preparing to pounce; the first, in the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated in
Réne-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé, ed., Chinese,
Korean and Japanese Sculpture in the Avery
Brundage Collection, Tokyo, 1974, pl. 28,
the second in the Bristol City Art Gallery,
illustrated in P.J. Donnelly, The Animal in
Chinese Art, London, 1968, pl. I-c. A third
example depicting the dragon with its right
forepaw raised and its body arched, is in the
Princeton University Art Museum, and was
included in the exhibition Dragons in Chinese
Art, China House Gallery, New York, 1971, cat.
no. 23.

可資一鎏金銅走龍例，尺寸略大，周身精刻龍
鱗，細緻入微，背見鋸齒狀脊，原屬 Frederick
Mayer 舊藏，曾展並刊錄於《Mostra d’Arte
Cinese》，威尼斯。1954年，圖錄編號159
，後售於倫敦佳士得1974年6月24至25日，
編號143，再後由洛克菲勒三世借出展於《Art
of the Six Dynasties. Centuries of Change
and Innovation》，China House Gallery，
紐約， 1975 年，編號 37 。另見一例，展
《Animals and Animal Designs in Chinese
Art》，Eskenazi Ltd.，倫敦，1998年，編
號15。此外，亦見一較大無鎏金例，展《Six
Dynasties art from the Norman A. Kurland
collection》，Eskenazi Ltd，倫敦，2018
年，編號10。同類走龍，還可對比一組體量稍
大、形態各異作例。參考二例，前爪伏地，慾
騰躍撲起狀，其一藏舊金山亞洲藝術博物館，
圖錄於 Réne-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé 編，
《Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture
in the Avery Brundage Collection》，東
京，1974年，圖版28，其二貯布里斯托城市藝
術畫廊，圖載 P.J. Donnelly，《The Animal
in Chinese Art》，倫敦，1968年，圖版I-c。
另有一例，作弓身、右爪高抬狀，普林斯頓大
學藝術博物館寶蓄，展並載錄於《Dragons in
Chinese Art》，China House Gallery，紐
約，1971年，編號23。