A Japanese floor vase, 19th century. Patinated bronze cast in several pieces. Three-dimensionally worked lid displaying a Phoenix and a dragon. Ornamented bellied corpus sectioned into four fields bearing plants and birds in relief. Inserted handles shaped as dragons on each side (one leg of a dragon broken but included). Tall, detachable base in relief with surrounding depictions of dragons with fully plastic heads (one head included but loose, one fixed with screws). Another three-dimensional dragon winds itself between corpus and base. Small defects, repairs,

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Size: 2753px × 3075px
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Photo credit: © INTERFOTO / History / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 19th, asia, asian, bronze, cast, century, clipping, clippings, cut, cut-, cut-outs, east, floor, japanese, object, objects, patinated, stills, vase