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Emblem on the exterior wall of the Asia Society Museum, New York City. I believe this is a chilin or Chi Lin.
Here's one of the axles for the gears. The top has been carved to fit the square center hole of the gear.
The back cover. The space between the bottom and the scales was loaded with many hundreds of wooden matches.
The wings were made out of black tissue. It was simple enough to glue on; the only tricky part was making sure not to get any glue on the joints so they could still move.