A LARGE IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE ARCHAISTIC TEMPLE BELL, BIANZHONG MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI, DATED TO THE 52ND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF EMPEROR KANGXI (CORRESPONDING TO 1713) the large bell finely cast, suspended from a double-headed dragon handle, each beast powerfully cast with eyes bulging and nostrils flaring above long curling whiskers, the mouth clenched open to reveal its tongue flicked up between sharp fangs, with two long studded horns extending back over its head along a combed mane with finely incised details, the two scaly bodies intertwined and crouching in ambush, the large barrel-shaped body with four panels of alternating bosses and triagrams, divided by two rectangular panels, one inscribed with the characters Kangxi wushier nian zhi, and the other with wu she 30cm., 12 in.
A LARGE IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE ARCHAISTIC TEMPLE BELL, BIANZHONG MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI, DATED TO THE 52ND YEAR OF THE REIGN OF EMPEROR KANGXI (CORRESPONDING TO 1713) the large bell finely cast, suspended from a double-headed dragon handle, each beast powerfully cast with eyes bulging and nostrils flaring above long curling whiskers, the mouth clenched open to reveal its tongue flicked up between sharp fangs, with two long studded horns extending back over its head along a combed mane with finely incised details, the two scaly bodies intertwined and crouching in ambush, the large barrel-shaped body with four panels of alternating bosses and triagrams, divided by two rectangular panels, one inscribed with the characters Kangxi wushier nian zhi, and the other with wu she 30cm., 12 in.
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