A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BIXIE cast seated on its haunches, the elaborate bifurcated tail extended upwards along its spine, the head facing forward, with bulging eyes below a thick brown and a single short horn, the teeth exposed, the surface worked to simulate long hair with scales on the chest and flaming scrolls wrapped around the beast legs (small losses), 18th/early 19th Century

細節

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BIXIE cast seated on its haunches, the elaborate bifurcated tail extended upwards along its spine, the head facing forward, with bulging eyes below a thick brown and a single short horn, the teeth exposed, the surface worked to simulate long hair with scales on the chest and flaming scrolls wrapped around the beast legs (small losses), 18th/early 19th Century
30cm. high

拍品專文

It has been suggested that this is an architectural element removed from a "flying roof" angle on a pavilion in the Imperial Palace, Beijing