A rare bronze figure of a crouching dragon

Jin dynasty

金 銅坐龍

cast seated on three powerful legs, its left forepaw raised above cloud vapor, the ferocious head detailed with a long curled horn above large protruding eyes and a long upturned snout exposing sharp fangs and a curled tongue, the sinewy body with long flowing flames issuing from its shoulders, its spine trailing to a upturned curving tail

Height 7 ? in., 19.2 cm

Alvin Lo & Co., Hong Kong, 28th September 1992. 

來源

春源齋，香港，1992年9月28日