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LOT 3402
A SMALL BRONZE 'SCHOLAR'S ROCK' BRUSHREST
MING DYNASTY
naturalistically cast in the form of a ‘scholar’s rock’ wrought out with vertical orientation,
the bronze surface pitted with jagged crevices and patinated to a smooth variegated brown
tone, wood stand
height 10.8 cm., 4 1/4 in.
ESTIMATE 60,000-80,000 HKD
Lot Sold: 200,000 HKD
PROVENANCE
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., The Second Bronze Age. Later Chinese Metalwork, London, 1991, lot 32.
CATALOGUE NOTE
A similar bronze 'scholar's rock' brushrest is in the British Museum, registration number 1986,0412.1.
