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A parcel-gilt bronze dancer 17th century
13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,800 inc. premium
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17th century
Elegantly cast wearing long flowing robes and a celestial scarf, with the right hand raised and the left hand lowered in mirror image, the robes incised with a phoenix badge, floral and geometric designs, the face with an intense expression below the high chignon, with one foot showing beneath the robes.
32cm (12⅝in) high.
Elegantly cast wearing long flowing robes and a celestial scarf, with the right hand raised and the left hand lowered in mirror image, the robes incised with a phoenix badge, floral and geometric designs, the face with an intense expression below the high chignon, with one foot showing beneath the robes.
32cm (12⅝in) high.
Footnotes
Provenance: an English private collection
A larger similar figure of a dancer, but cast in mirror image, was sold in these rooms on 10 July 2006, lot 261.














