A VERY RARE BRONZE HUMAN-FORM WATER DROPPER
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
A VERY RARE BRONZE HUMAN-FORM WATER DROPPER HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220) Hollow cast as a kneeling figure wearing only a breech-cloth, the smooth face cast with small mouth, prominent nose and tapering ovoid eyes, all flanked by projecting ears with long, pierced lobes, wearing a cap tapering to a point in back and cast with a beaded border and tight coils surrounding a central aperture with short collar to accomodate the long tubular water dropper, his slender arms bent forward and the extended right hand holding a pricket on which is fitted a separate pole entwined by a slender dragon, with extensive malachite green encrustation 9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) high
A VERY RARE BRONZE HUMAN-FORM WATER DROPPER
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220)
A VERY RARE BRONZE HUMAN-FORM WATER DROPPER HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220) Hollow cast as a kneeling figure wearing only a breech-cloth, the smooth face cast with small mouth, prominent nose and tapering ovoid eyes, all flanked by projecting ears with long, pierced lobes, wearing a cap tapering to a point in back and cast with a beaded border and tight coils surrounding a central aperture with short collar to accomodate the long tubular water dropper, his slender arms bent forward and the extended right hand holding a pricket on which is fitted a separate pole entwined by a slender dragon, with extensive malachite green encrustation 9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) high
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