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A VERY RARE SMALL GILT-BRONZE DRAGON HEAD-FORM FINIAL TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
纽约 北京时间
2021年09月23日 开拍 / 2021年09月21日 截止委托
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A VERY RARE SMALL GILT-BRONZE DRAGON HEAD-FORM FINIAL
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The finial is powerfully cast as a dragon head with a curled single horn above bulging eyes and an upturned snout, and finely detailed mane.
2 ? in. (6.3 cm.) long
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.Lot Essay Dragon-head fittings such as the present example were thought to have adorned furniture, chariots, and boats, as evidenced by several examples of paintings and furniture adorned by gilt dragon-head fittings. A handscroll of the Classics of Piety by the Southern Song Emperor Gaozong (1127-1162), with illustrations attributed to Ma Hezhi (active 1130-1170), shows the emperor seated in a carriage fitted with dragon-head terminals. Gilt dragon-head fittings continued to remain popular decorative elements on imperial furnishings, as can be seen on Emperor Qianlong’s folding armchair (see Sarah Handler, “The Elegant Vagabond: The Chinese Folding Armchair,” Orientations, January 1992, p. 95, figs. 13-14). There are a few recorded Tang-dynasty dragon head-form fittings in a variety of mediums which are stylistically similar to the present fitting. A very similarly depicted dragon head, but in jade, in the Xi’an Antiquities Protection and Archeological Institute, was excavated from Qujiang village in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, and was thought to have been a fitting from a royal boat. See Gilded Dragons: Buried Treasures from China’s Golden Ages, British Museum, London, 1999, no. 54. The Qujiang jade dragon head is very similar to one also the collection of Stephen Junkunc, III, that was offered at Christie’s New York, 13 September 2019, lot 830. Another stylistically similar jade dragon-head fitting (24.7 cm.) dated to the 9th-10th century, in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Gure, is illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt and Jean-Claude Moreau-Gobard, Chinese Art: Bronze, Jade, Sculpture, Ceramics, New York, 1960, pl. 82. For an example in pottery, see the Tang-dynasty architectural sancai-glazed dragon-head fitting illustrated in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, no. 1. For an earlier gilt-bronze example dating to the Six Dynasties period (AD220-589), see the dragon-head fitting of larger size (13.4 cm.) sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 December 1989, lot 116.

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