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Yu-Ming Chang
6th February 2006, 02:58 AM
Hi,

I was wondering if anyone here could help interpret this motif? I have really no idea what if could be. At first I thought it was 2 dragons facing each other forming 1 larger dragon head. But then it could a tiger or lion, heck a hairy person for all I can tell.

Robert
6th February 2006, 04:38 AM
I'm no expert but it looks like an owl to me.

Jens Nordlunde
6th February 2006, 05:08 PM
Welcome to the forum:).
Please let us see the whole weapon and a detail of the decoration only - as big as possible.

Jens

Yu-Ming Chang
18th February 2006, 03:27 PM
Here are bigger photographs of the spearhead (took me a little longer to take them then I thought it would).

Yu-Ming Chang
18th February 2006, 03:42 PM
I'm no expert but it looks like an owl to me.

It does look like an owl! I was sort of fixated on (in my mind in any case) more common decorative motifs in Chinese art that I dismissed birds from my consideration simply because the carving didn't look like a phoenix.


Welcome to the forum

Thank you.

Valjhun
18th February 2006, 09:24 PM
Pekingese dog? :D