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Lot 391
A Japanese Hanging Bronze Bell with Dragon Frame
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Antique, bell is decorated with the four guardians of the four compass directions being the tortoise, the white tiger, the dragon, and the red bird, a key border along the bottom of the bell, bell hangs from a bronze double dragon standing mount elaborately cast and rendered with tails intertwining in the center and above their heads meeting with open mouths, long whiskers, and having three claws, the bell can be separated from the dragon mount.

13.75 x 13.75 in.

Good estate condition; some breaks and loss to edges and body of the dragons; bell has a few areas of push and some surface losses as well as areas with white substance that can be removed.