Striding Dragon
CultureChinese
DateWestern Han dynasty (206 B.C.E-9 C.E.)
MediumGilt bronze
DimensionsOverall: 2 5/8 × 4 7/8 inches (6.67 × 12.38 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-185/8
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionSlender, linear dragon figure, with its neck arched, its proper right legs advanced, and its tail sweeping out in the rear.Exhibition HistoryExhibition of Han Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November, 1941.
Oriental Art Exhibition, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, January 23-March 4, 1966.
Yamanaka & Co., New York, until 1932.
Purchased from Yamanaka & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959): 176 (repro.).
Mario Bussagli, Bronzi cinesi, (Milan, Italy: Fabbri, 1966): 18, pl. 5 (repro.).
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