Besatzstück in Form eines Drachen aus Bronze mit grüner Patina

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06.12.2022 09:30UTC +02:00
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Lot 264 | Besatzstück in Form eines Drachen aus Bronze mit grüner Patina
A GREEN PATINATED BRONZE FITTING IN SHAPE OF A DRAGON - China, Eastern Zhou dynasty - The beautifully modeled animal, its flanks engraved with raised, rather than, as was often the case at the time not only engraved cloud and spiral motifs, as was often the case at that time. The animal looks backwards over its somewhat curved back, the tail is curled up. Presumably, such pieces served as handles of vessels or other devices. - Important Austrian private collection, collected in the 1990s Publ. Zeileis: 'From Shang to Qing - Three and a Half Millennia of Chinese Bronze', 1999, no. 118, p. 318. A dragon very similar to this one from the same period is published by Jessica Rawson, 'Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections', Vol. Il, p. 122 Traces of age, very slightly chipped
China, östliche Zhou-Dynastie
L. 16 cm
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