PORTE-MIROIR EN BRONZE PARTIELLEMENT DORE ET UN MIROIR EN BRONZE
PORTE-MIROIR EN BRONZE PARTIELLEMENT DORE ET UN MIROIR EN BRONZE

PORTE-MIROIR: CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN (1279-1368)MIROIR EN BRONZE: POSSIBLEMENT COREE, EPOQUE KORYO (918-1392)

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PORTE-MIROIR EN BRONZE PARTIELLEMENT DORE ET UN MIROIR EN BRONZE
PORTE-MIROIR: CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN (1279-1368)
MIROIR EN BRONZE: POSSIBLEMENT COREE, EPOQUE KORYO (918-1392)
The recumbent mythical beast is finely modelled with its head turned facing the rear, with its bovine head is cast with a single horn before a wavy tuft of hair. The saddle bears a crescent-shaped receptacle decorated with ruyi clouds housing a bronze mirror depicting a pair of dragons chasing the flaming pearl.
The mirror stand: 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) long
The mirror: 9 in. (23 cm.) diam.
來源
Etude Tajan, Paris, 20 Feburary 2002, Lot 391.
Property from a German family collection.

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A PARCEL-GILT-BRONZE 'XINIU' MIRROR STAND AND A BRONZE MIRROR
THE MIRROR STAND: CHINA, YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
THE BRONZE MIRROR: POSSIBLY KOREA, KORYO PERIOD (918-1392)

拍品專文

A closely related example of this mythical animal form, dated to the Song or Yuan dynasty, is illustrated by R. Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990, frontcover, and p. 101, pl. 87. It is mentioned that this mythical single-horned animal, known as xiniu and depicted gazing up at the moon, was a popular motif on ceramics of the Song and Yuan periods, ibid., p. 110.
Another early example of 'xiniu' mirror stand, dated 14th-15th century, is illustrated by Michel Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine Impériale des Song aux Qing, Musée Cernuschi, Paris-Musées, 2013, fig.57, p.112.

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