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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN PRIVATE Compare a closely related example attributed to the Jin
COLLECTION dynasty, similarly cast in a seated position with one claw
A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF A CROUCHING raised grasping a cloud wisp and tail curled upward behind
DRAGON the back, discovered in Acheng, Heilongjiang province, now
JIN DYNASTY in the Heilongjiang Museum, Harbin, exhibited in Zhongguo
jiyi. Wuqiannian wenming guibao [The Chinese Memory.
cast seated on three powerful legs, its left forepaw raised Treasures of the 5000-year Civilization], Capital Museum,
above cloud vapor, the ferocious head detailed with a long Beijing, 2008, cat. no. 59. A smaller example, with the left
curled horn above large protruding eyes and a long upturned claw raised to support a ‘Flaming Pearl’ from the Junkunc
snout exposing sharp fangs and a curled tongue, the sinewy Collection, was offered in these rooms, 10th September
body with long flowing flames issuing from its shoulders, its 2019, lot 231.
spine trailing to a upturned curving tail
Height 7½ in., 19.2 cm $ 20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE
Alvin Lo & Co., Hong Kong, 28th September 1992. 金 銅坐龍
來源
春源齋，香港，1992年9月28日

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A PAIR OF PARCEL-GILT SILVER FOLIATE- Boxes decorated with phoenix design are rare. Compare
FORM ‘PHOENIX’ BOXES AND COVERS the phoenix design to that on a Tang silver bowl excavated
TANG DYNASTY from Hejia village, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, exhibited
in HuawudaTangchun. Hejiacun yibao jingcui [Selected
each of generally circular section with the undulating sides Treasures from Hejiacun Tang hoard], Shaanxi History
divided into four bracket foliations, the central panel of each Museum, Xi’an and the School of Archaeology and
box and cover worked in repoussé with a phoenix in motion, Museology at Peking University, 2003, cat. no 40.
the wings and legs outstretched and the long tail sweeping Marvin Sadik was a scholar of American art, who served as
overhead, a leafy fruiting vine twisting along the edges, the the director of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
bird and vine gilded and set against a ring-punched ground, Institution, Washington, D.C., the Bowdoin College Museum
the sides chased with a continuous band of scrollwork picked of Art, Brunswick, Maine, and the University of Connecticut
out in gilt (4) Museum of Art, Mansfield, Connecticut. Dr. Sadik became
Width 2¾ in., 7 cm director (1969-1981) of the National Portrait Gallery just
one year after the museum opened to the public, and his
PROVENANCE
achievements there included expanding the collection
Collection of Marvin Sadik (1932-2013). to over 2,000 artworks, acquiring important presidential
portraits by Gilbert Stuart, persuading the U.S. Congress to
pass legislation allowing the museum to collect photography,
and mounting pathbreaking exhibitions devoted to African
Americans and other subjects.

$ 15,000-20,000

唐 銀局部鎏金鳳紋菱花式蓋盒一對

來源
Marvin Sadik (1932-2013) 收藏

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