Compare the 'Double-Phoenix' example where the two birds surround a hollowed trunk from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by P. Rawson and L. Legeza, Tao, la Philosophie Chinoise du Temps et du Changement, p.101, fig.17. Compare also the similar vase sold in our London Rooms, 10 June 1991, lot 143; and the related qilin incense burner sold in these, 30 April 1995, lot 586. A gilt-bronze qilin mythical beast incense burner from the Shenyang Palace Museum, Liaoning Province, is similarly cast with settings for embellishment with turquoise, cf. Son of Heaven, Imperial Arts of China, p.40, no.33 and 34