Olivia Xu
Associate Specialist
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
女士藏品
女士藏品
Lot 312
THREE BRONZE ANIMAL SCROLL WEIGHTS Late Ming Dynasty
2 November 2023, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,144 inc. premium
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Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
THREE BRONZE ANIMAL SCROLL WEIGHTS
Late Ming Dynasty
One in the form of a recumbent deer with long antlers issuing from the head with almond-shaped eyes, the body with finely incised hair, the legs tucked beside the body, 8cm (3 1/8in) long; the second in the form of a recumbent ram with curling horns issuing from the head turned sharply towards the rear with long tail sweeping its right haunch, 7cm (2 3/4in) long; the third crisply cast in a coiling chilong clasping a lingzhi in its mouth, 7.5cm (3in) wide. (3).
One in the form of a recumbent deer with long antlers issuing from the head with almond-shaped eyes, the body with finely incised hair, the legs tucked beside the body, 8cm (3 1/8in) long; the second in the form of a recumbent ram with curling horns issuing from the head turned sharply towards the rear with long tail sweeping its right haunch, 7cm (2 3/4in) long; the third crisply cast in a coiling chilong clasping a lingzhi in its mouth, 7.5cm (3in) wide. (3).
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明晚期 銅動物形紙鎮 一組三件
Provenance: a French private collection
來源：法國私人收藏
Paper weights in the form of humans or animals were useful desktop treasures fro the scholarly elites. Compare with a related group of three bronze scroll weights shaped as animals, Ming dynasty, which were sold at Christie's London, 7 November 2014, lot 573.
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