AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE GILT-BRONZE PLAQUE NORTHERN DYNASTIES
shaped as a pointed arch, elaborately cast in openwork and finely chased with turbulent flames surrounding a central arched cartouche containing ribbon-tied trefoil scrolls, centered with a hemispherical rock crystal enclosing a polychrome painted Buddhist figure, the reverse set along the bottom with two vertical pegs for attachment
Height 6 1/4 in., 15.9 cm
Provenance:
C. T. Loo, New York.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
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shaped as a pointed arch, elaborately cast in openwork and finely chased with turbulent flames surrounding a central arched cartouche containing ribbon-tied trefoil scrolls, centered with a hemispherical rock crystal enclosing a polychrome painted Buddhist figure, the reverse set along the bottom with two vertical pegs for attachment
Height 6 1/4 in., 15.9 cm
Provenance:
C. T. Loo, New York.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).