A bronze scroll weight of a mythological animal. Ming Dynasty

A bronze scroll weight of a mythological animal. Ming Dynasty

The details and form elegantly modelled; with a fitted wood stand. 7cm (nearly 3in) long. (2). Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000

Footnote: For similar bronzes from this later genre of Chinese bronze casting, see: 'China's Renaissance in Bronze/The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes' by Robert Mowry.

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