A RARE GILT-BRONZE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' WEIGHT WESTERN HAN DYNASTY the domed weight deftly cast in the round in the form of combating animals, centered by a large predatory beast, possibly a tiger, attacking two bears, with its sharp fanged teeth sunk into the haunches of one and tramping the other under its left foreleg, with a wild boar in pursuit behind, the bodies twisted and entwined, morphing into a solid mass of bodies, the base ungilt, wood stand, Japanese wood box (4) Width 4 1/8 in., 10.5 cm
A RARE GILT-BRONZE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' WEIGHT WESTERN HAN DYNASTY the domed weight deftly cast in the round in the form of combating animals, centered by a large predatory beast, possibly a tiger, attacking two bears, with its sharp fanged teeth sunk into the haunches of one and tramping the other under its left foreleg, with a wild boar in pursuit behind, the bodies twisted and entwined, morphing into a solid mass of bodies, the base ungilt, wood stand, Japanese wood box (4) Width 4 1/8 in., 10.5 cm
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