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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN FAMILY 歐洲家族藏品
Lots 193 - 196

193
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE MODEL OF A MYTHICAL BEAST, Compare with a very similar parcel-gilt bronze mirror stand in the form
XINIU of a mythical beast, Song or Yuan dynasty, in the Victoria and Albert
Ming Dynasty Museum, illustrated by R.Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990,
The recumbent horned mythical beast naturalistically cast with bulging pp.100-101, no.87. Another very similar parcel-gilt bronze mirror
eyes and manes, the head graciously turned backward, the legs neatly stand in the form of a mythical beast, 14th/15th century, is illustrated
bent, encircled by scrolling flames to the thighs and shoulders. by M.Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chinese Imperiale des Song aux Qing,
26.3cm (10 3/8in) wide Paris, 2013, p.112, no.57.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY53,000 - 71,000
明 局部鎏金銅瑞獸坐像

Provenance: a distinguished European private collection

來源： 顯貴歐洲私人收藏

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