Dragons, Giants, & Unicorns: The World of Mythic Creatures
Dublin Core
Title
Dragons, Giants, & Unicorns: The World of Mythic Creatures
Description
PPHM hosted a traveling exhibit from the American Museum of Natural History titled Dragons, Giants, and Unicorns: The World of Mythic Creatures, which ran from September 2022 to March 2023. Here you can view mythic artifacts from our own collection that were featured alongside the exhibit.
Collection Items
Child's Embroidered Jacket
Children's royal blue (purple) velveteen "baseball" jacket; blue and white rib knit collar, waist and cuffs, long sleeves; white embroidered mountain landscape on left and right breast; white, bluish gray and golden yellow embroidered eagle on back;…
Incense Burner
Japanese bronze incense burner; made in sectional castings with molded and applied animal designs including elephant heads, kylins, dragon, and phoenix, bowl on top to hold ashes; was converted for electricity at one time but is now in its original…
Canape Set of Skewers with Stand
Brass cooking utensils, stand has lions for feet, dragons for outside brackets each rod topped with ornament, front has tasseled string and disc motif; arched upper support, each rod pointed at one end, lion shaped feet bolted to stand, poor quality…
Vase with Wooden Stand
Dragon vase, brass bronze, round bowl, long neck, flare lip, dragon after pearl symbol on neck; on wood stand
Chinese Vase
Bronze Chinese vase; six legged dragon is wrapped around the neck of vase, three smaller dragons rest on the side
Chinese Vase
Bronze Chinese vase with round porcelain decoration near top, tree branches, segmented turtle with tail, Chih lizard handles; Ming dynasty; 16" tall
