AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE BRONZE DRAGON-FORM SUPPORT HAN DYNASTY strikingly cast, the mythical creature coiled with its head raised high and its right foreclaw grasping its long curled tail sweeping under its body, its face rendered with an upturned snout, wide open mouth, rounded bulging eyes and back-swept pointed ears, its long scaly neck extending to a pair of folded wings issuing from its shoulders, its sinuous body set with a short spike for insertion, the surface with areas of malachite encrustation Length 4 1/2 in., 11.5 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance C.T. Loo, New York, 7th December 1946. Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). Exhibited Exhibition of Chinese Arts, C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 1941, cat. no. 180. Literature 'Oak Park Resident Keeps Priceless Collection of Oriental Art in Bomb Shelter', Chicago Tribune, 7th September 1952, part III, p. 1.
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE BRONZE DRAGON-FORM SUPPORT HAN DYNASTY strikingly cast, the mythical creature coiled with its head raised high and its right foreclaw grasping its long curled tail sweeping under its body, its face rendered with an upturned snout, wide open mouth, rounded bulging eyes and back-swept pointed ears, its long scaly neck extending to a pair of folded wings issuing from its shoulders, its sinuous body set with a short spike for insertion, the surface with areas of malachite encrustation Length 4 1/2 in., 11.5 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance C.T. Loo, New York, 7th December 1946. Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). Exhibited Exhibition of Chinese Arts, C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 1941, cat. no. 180. Literature 'Oak Park Resident Keeps Priceless Collection of Oriental Art in Bomb Shelter', Chicago Tribune, 7th September 1952, part III, p. 1.
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