Water, Pine and Stone Retreat Collection: Later Bronzes

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Lot 250
  • 250

A Large Bronze Simulated Scholar’s Rock Late Qing Dynasty / Early Republican Period

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 HKD
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Description

  • bronze
heavily cast in the form of a strange stone copying a large pierced black lingbi limestone, patinated to a greenish-black colour, cast with a two-character maker’s mark or owner’s seal reading cangxin shi ('Stone of the Heart Collection'), carved wood stand

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 14th May 2008, lot 674.

Catalogue Note

It is rare to find a bronze of this large size, simulating a lingbi scholar's rock, but for a smaller bronze in the form of a brushrest, but with similar style of lost-wax casting, see Paul Moss and Gerard Hawthorn, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork, Sydney Moss Ltd., London, 1991, cat. no. 32.