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23 avril 2020

A gilt-bronze 'deer' paperweight, Ming dynasty

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Lot 47. A gilt-bronze 'deer' paperweight, Ming dynasty; 5.5cm., 2 1/8 in. Estimate 2,000 — 3,000 GBP. Lot sold 17,500 GBP (24,393 EUR). Photo courtesy Sotheby's.

 cast recumbent with legs tucked underneath the body and tail curled alongside its rear haunches, the horned head lifted above its front hooves, grasping a spray of lingzhi in its mouth, Japanese wood box.

Noteodelled with gentle features and full rounded body, this figure is a rare example of bronze animal sculptures made for the scholar’s desk. Compare three paperweights in the form of reclining mythological animals from the Robert H. Clague collection, included in the exhibition China’s Renaissance in Bronze, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1993, cat. nos 45-47; another from the Water Pine and Stone Retreat collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 129; and a further paperweight in the form of a reclining lion, sold twice at Christie’s London, 14th/17th June 1985, lot 355A, and 8th June 1992, lot 144.

Sotheby's. The Soul of Japanese Aesthetics – The Tsuneichi Inoue Collection, London, 13 may 2015

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