A Small Gilt-Bronze Striding Dragon

SIX DYNASTIES PERIOD

细节

A Small Gilt-Bronze Striding Dragon
Six Dynasties Period
The slender, powerful figure shown striding purposefully forward with neck arched and head facing forward, the mouth slightly open to show the fangs, with knobbed horn and rippled, extended tail, some green encrustation
5in. (12.7cm.) long

拍品专文

Small gilt-bronze figures of striding dragons with a single horn, long rippling snout, curling tongue and slender tail have been dated as early as the Northern Wei dynasty and continued to be made into the Tang dynasty. The straight, elongated slender body of this figure appears to be most similar to that of the dragon also dated to the Six Dynasties period included in the exhibition, Animals and animal designs in Chinese art, Eskenazi, New York, March 1998, no. 15.