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Later Chinese Bronzes from the Collection of Ulrich
Hausmann
Hong Kong | 08 Oct 2014, 11:45 AM | HK0558

LOT 3370

A BRONZE 'QILIN' MIRROR STAND
MING DYNASTY, 15TH - 17TH CENTURY

cast as a recumbent qilin with its legs tucked beneath its body and its head turned towards
its back, its slender tail wagging towards the left sinuously, its back set with a stand
detailed with ruyi-shaped motifs and surmounted by a crescent-shaped arch for supporting
a mirror
17.3 cm., 6 3/4 in.
ESTIMATE 60,000-80,000 HKD
Lot Sold: 112,500 HKD

PROVENANCE

Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, June 1982.

CATALOGUE NOTE

Mirror stands like these were very popular and made over a long period of time. Rose Kerr in Later Chinese Bronzes,
London, 1990, cat. no. 87, illustrates such an extensively gilt stand from the Salting Bequest in the Victoria & Albert
Museum, which she dates convincingly to the Song / Yuan dynasty. A closely related but slightly large mirror stand in
the Musée Cernuschi is illustrated by Michel Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine impériale, des Song aux Qin, Paris, 2013,
cat. no. 57.