A RARE GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID IRON FINIAL WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY
well cast with a cylindrical socket surmounted by a bulging cap finely inlaid in gold and silver with a geometric pattern, set to one side with a similarly inlaid openwork terminal modeled in the form of a stylized dragon with an upturned snout, opposite a slender fan-shaped axe blade encircled at the base with a further geometric band
Length 7 1/4 in., 18.4 cm
Provenance:
C.T. Loo, New York.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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well cast with a cylindrical socket surmounted by a bulging cap finely inlaid in gold and silver with a geometric pattern, set to one side with a similarly inlaid openwork terminal modeled in the form of a stylized dragon with an upturned snout, opposite a slender fan-shaped axe blade encircled at the base with a further geometric band
Length 7 1/4 in., 18.4 cm
Provenance:
C.T. Loo, New York.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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