J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Art: The Szekeres Collection
March 13-29, 2019
30.
A GILT BRONZE DRAGON
Tang Dynasty (618 – 907)
shown striding with head held high, mouth open and short tongue protruding under a pointed snout, with a single horn curled back from the forehead, the sinuous slender body incised with scales, the backbone with a row of jagged points, the long tail curled around one hind leg, the surface with bright gilding well preserved, the feet and underside showing traces of red and green patina.
Length 3 inches (7.5 cm)
Provenance
C. T. Loo / Frank Caro, New York, 1950’s
Collection of Mrs. Catherine Hoobler, Ann Arbor, Michigan
American Private Collection
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 1988
Compare the similar gilt bronze striding dragon excavated in 1979, now in the collection of the Xi’an City Cultural Relics Storehouse, exhibited at the British Museum and illustrated by Michaelson in Gilded Dragons: Buried Treasures from China’s Golden Ages, London, 1999, p. 92, no. 53.
Compare another similar gilt bronze striding dragon in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, illustrated by Juliano, Art of the Six Dynasties: Centuries of Change and Innovation, New York, 1975, p. 61, no. 37.
A pair of gilt bronze striding dragons from the Winthrop Collection now in the Harvard University Art Museums, is illustrated in Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Cambridge, 1969, pp. 54-55, no. 54.
唐 銅鎏金遊龍 長 7.5 厘米