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ANOTHER PROPERTY
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A RARE LARGE BRONZE DEER-FORM SUPPORT
MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 15TH-18TH CENTURY
The striding stag is caparisoned in a halter, bell and tassel-hung breast collar, strap-
hung crouper centered by a ‘fre pearl’, stirrups, and a fringed blanket surmounted
by a cloth-draped urn with cylindrical center that opens into the hollow center of
the stag’s body. The bronze has a pale grey and milky-green patina.
31 in. (79 cm.) long
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Chicago, since the 1980s.
Similar trappings can be seen on a small bronze horse dating to the Yuan-early Ming
dynasty, 13th-15th century, sold at Christie’s New York, 18-19 September 2014, lot 1020,
as well as on a Ming-dynasty gilt-bronze fgure of a horse supporting a fgure Guanyin,
ofered at Sotheby’s New York, 21-22 September 2005, lot 237. See, also, the 17th-18th
century cloisonné enamel and gilt-bronze incense burner in the fgure of a deer with similar
trappings sold at Sotheby’s New York, 20 March 2007, lot 551.
The result of Oxford thermoluminescence test no. N114m80 is consistent with the dating of
this lot.
明十五/清十八世紀 銅鹿形座
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