The Kara Khitan Phoenix Cunberbund

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I picked the SAMOA Cumberbund because it is so typicallally Kara Khitanian but at the same time related in configuration to the Phoenix of the Armenian manuscripts.

Liao dynasty bronze twin phoenix cummerbund (907-1125) from China at San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, TX.
Photo by Jim Steinhart © 2014, all rights reserved. (Ref: TXAA725)

A Liao Dynasty Gilt Bronze Lion on a Ram

The image of a Lion in Full attack on the back of a domestic animal is common in Persian Art from at least the 15th century onward. Where does it come from. Is the western Liao, the Kara Khitan the key to the puzzle.
Auction Notes:
FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
370
A GILT-BRONZE LION AND RAM GROUP
LIAO DYNASTY
Estimate  10,000 — 15,000  GBP

A GILT-BRONZE LION AND RAM GROUP
LIAO DYNASTY
the lion in full attack leaping onto the back of the standing ram and sinking its teeth into its back
9cm., 3 1/2 in.


SOTHEBY'S FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
09 NOVEMBER 2011 | 10:00 AM GMT
LONDON

A Yuan Dynasty Dragon and Phoenix Jar

DRAGON AND PHOENIX' JAR YUAN DYNASTY

This jar caught my eye because it has both a Dragon and Phoenix during the Yuan dynasty. I have heard it said that it was not frequently combined before the Ming dynasty.

Auction Notes
Sotheby's CHINESE ART
24 NOVEMBER 2014 - 25 NOVEMBER 2014 | 2:30 PM HKT
HONG KONG
CONTACT INFO
A 'CIZHOU' PAINTED 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' JAR
YUAN DYNASTY
of baluster form rising from a recessed base to broad shoulder and a straight neck, vividly painted in washes of brown on a cream-white glaze, one side with a dragon writhing among clouds, the other with a large en face Phoenix with outstretched wings, each enclosed in a large lozenge panel and divided by swiftly drawn flowers, all below a band of large leafy flowers reserved on a hatched ground encircling the neck, the base left in the rough revealing a pale buff-coloured ware
29.2 cm., 11 1/2  in.
CATALOGUE NOTE
A jar of this type, in the Kazuo Museum, Liaoning province, is illustrated in The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics. Liao, Western Xia, Jin, vol. 9, Shanghai, 1999, pl. 179; another in the Cleveland Museum of Art, was included in the exhibition Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China. Tz'u-chou Type Wares, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1980, cat. no. 93, illustrated together with two related jars, one in the Los Angeles County Museum, and the other recovered underneath the walls of the Yuan capital Dadu, present day Beijing, figs 268 and 269; and two further jars were sold in our London rooms, 5th July 1977,lot 140, and, 7th December 1993, lot 174.