A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF A DOE WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
naturalistically cast, the stocky animal depicted playfully striding with its fore legs and rear legs widely spread in opposite directions, it's head rendered with large rounded eyes and pricked ears, its short tail curved upward, the underside with a rectangular opening revealing a hollow interior, the surface mottled with patches of malachite encrustation
Length 6 1/4 in., 15.9 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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naturalistically cast, the stocky animal depicted playfully striding with its fore legs and rear legs widely spread in opposite directions, it's head rendered with large rounded eyes and pricked ears, its short tail curved upward, the underside with a rectangular opening revealing a hollow interior, the surface mottled with patches of malachite encrustation
Length 6 1/4 in., 15.9 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).