A GILT-BRONZE SILKWORM

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A GILT-BRONZE SILKWORM
HAN DYNASTY

With a long body divided into eight segments, the head raised and cast with rounded eyes and a pointed segmented snout, some gilding worn and minor malachite encrustation--3 1/4in. (8.3cm.) long, box

Lot Essay

Compare the two gilt-bronze silkworms in the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, included in the Memorial Exhibition, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1952, Catalogue, no. 506

Compare also a similar example sold in these rooms, December 1, 1988, lot 149