An impressive bronze model of a coiled dragon by Kimura Toun Japan, late Edo-Meiji period, 19th century | 日本 江戶時代晚期至明治時代 十九世紀 銅鑄龍擺件

This impressive bronze sculpture of a dragon may have originally been associated with a round vessel to form an incense burner (kōro). Compare a similar bronze okimono of a dragon by Kimura Toun from the Estate of Henri Cernuschi, preserved together with a round incense burner cast with a phoenix, in the collection of the Musée Cernuschi, Paris, published on https://www.cernuschi.paris.fr/fr/node/287.

The Cernuschi’s dragon entered the museum’s collection in 1871 and is also illustrated in Art animalier au temps des derniers Shogun (XVIIIe - XIXe siècles) : animaux d'Edo - Fonds Cernuschi 1871 - 1872 [exhibition catalogue with black-and-white illustrations], Paris, Musée Cernuschi, 1986, no. 82, p. 45.

See also a similar dragon standing foursquare and attributed to Kimura Toun, sold in these rooms, 23rd july 2020, from the Steinitz collection.

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本品或與一件圓形器成組為香爐,比較一相近龍型擺件（日文稱「置物」），出自Henri Cernuschi收藏，與一圓形香爐成組，現存於巴黎 Musée Cernuschi，載於 https://www.cernuschi.paris.fr/fr/node/287，此龍型擺件1871年起為該館收藏，亦圖載於 《Art animalier au temps des derniers Shogun (XVIIIe - XIXe siècles) : animaux d'Edo - Fonds Cernuschi 1871 – 1872》 [展覽圖錄，附黑白插圖]，巴黎，Musée Cernuschi，1986年，編號82，頁45。 

另比一相近龍形擺件例，Kimura Toun製，出自Steinitz收藏，售於巴黎蘇富比2020年7月23日。