A GILT-BRONZE KNEELING MYTHICAL BEAST, with head lowered sharply to the right, humped spine and bifurcated tail, the spine hair marking symmetrically cast, the tops of the hind legs with scale panels, possibly Six Dynasties/Tang Dynasty, 20cm. wide; a silvered-bronze large mirror cast with seven standing bird panels, 19cm. diam.; and another smaller with a cosmological inscription around a band of high-relief stylised animals, 11.5cm. diam., both Tang Dynasty, (surfaces encrusted) (3)

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A GILT-BRONZE KNEELING MYTHICAL BEAST, with head lowered sharply to the right, humped spine and bifurcated tail, the spine hair marking symmetrically cast, the tops of the hind legs with scale panels, possibly Six Dynasties/Tang Dynasty, 20cm. wide; a silvered-bronze large mirror cast with seven standing bird panels, 19cm. diam.; and another smaller with a cosmological inscription around a band of high-relief stylised animals, 11.5cm. diam., both Tang Dynasty, (surfaces encrusted) (3)

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