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A RARE BRONZE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' WEIGHT HAN - SIX DYNASTIES

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strikingly modeled in a powerful stance on a circular base of stylized mountains, its ferocious head with the mouth agape revealing sharp fangs, below bulging eyes and two ridged curling horns, its compact body with wings issuing from the shoulders and a long bifurcated tail extending down from the end of its arched back, its stout legs terminating in paws with long claws, the surface with malachite encrustation
Width 3 in., 7.5 cm

Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).


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strikingly modeled in a powerful stance on a circular base of stylized mountains, its ferocious head with the mouth agape revealing sharp fangs, below bulging eyes and two ridged curling horns, its compact body with wings issuing from the shoulders and a long bifurcated tail extending down from the end of its arched back, its stout legs terminating in paws with long claws, the surface with malachite encrustation
Width 3 in., 7.5 cm

Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

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