Description
heavily cast as a pair of striding five-clawed dragons whose sinuous bodies entwine, each creature finely detailed with powerful legs, scaly bodies and spiky dorsal fins, the face with bulging eyes showing a ferocious expression, the mouth agape at a ball held in its left forepaw
Dimensions
24cm wide
Footnote
Provenance:
Private London Collection.
Note:
Compare similar pieces in: Sidney L. Moss Ltd., The Second Bronze Age, Later Chinese Metalwork, London 1991, no. 15, and Sidney L. Moss, The Literati Mode, no 141; a probably later pair of such stands is housed in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
For another comparable piece, see Sotheby's sale in their Paris rooms on 12th December 2013, lot 10.