Chinese Art
Chinese Art
A Collecting Journey: The Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection
A very rare gilt-bronze 'dragon head' handle, Eastern Han Dynasty
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March 18, 01:00 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
stand (2)
Length 5¼ in., 13.3 cm
Collection of Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), by 1922.
Collection of Madame Féron-Stoclet.
Eskenazi, Ltd., London, March 2004.
Henri d'Ardenne de Tizac, Animals in Chinese Art, New York, 1922, pl. XXVIA (attributed to Tang dynasty).
Umehara Sueji, Shina kodo Seikwa / Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America, Osaka, 1933, pt. III, vol. I, pl. 64b.
Herman Floris Eduard Visser, Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland and Belgium, Amsterdam, 1948, no. 159, pl. 71 (attributed to possibly Six Dynasties period).
Georges Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Collection Adolphe Stoclet, Brussels, 1956, pp 386-389 (attributed to Six Dynasties period).
Exhibition of Chinese Art, Municipal Museum, Amsterdam, 1925, cat. no. 112.
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, cat. no. 541.