Lot 308 明末/清初 銅局部鎏金犀牛望月鏡架

明末/清初 銅局部鎏金犀牛望月鏡架

EUR 2,000

2,000 - 4,000 EUR

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W. 24.5 cm, 9⅝ in.
来源：Louis-Victor de Rochechouart，Mortemart侯爵 (1909-1938)收藏，此後家族傳承
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说明：The motif of a mythical one-horned xiniu gazing up at the moon can be found on a range of Song dynasty artefacts from ceramics to textiles, including on a ‘Ding’ dish sold in our Hong Kong rooms 4th April 2017, lot 3216. Scholar Jan Wirgin traces the origins of the xiniu (‘hsi-niu’) to the Asian rhinoceros which, already largely extinct by the Song, inspired tales of a mythical bovine creature whose single curved horn is mirrored by the crescent moon and helps it communicate with the sky; see Jan Virgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pp. 196-8.
A similar stand, but with the xiniu facing to the left, is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (acc. no. M.737-1910) and illustrated on the cover of Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, pl. 87. Compare also a similar, slightly larger stand sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 6th October 2015, lot 185 and again, with a different mirror, on 11th June 2021, lot 3101; and another related xiniu without a mirror stand sold at Bonhams London, 9th November 2017, lot 193.