Property from the Bertholet Collection 貝氏情色藝術珍藏
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April 29, 06:28 AM GMT
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70,000 - 90,000 HKD
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Property from the Bertholet Collection
A bronze 'erotica' mirror
Song dynasty
貝氏情色藝術珍藏
宋 青銅風月圖方鏡
9.7 by 9.7 cm
Ferry M. Bertholet, Concubines and Courtesans: Women in Chinese Erotic Art, Brussels, 2010, pl. 65.
貝索烈,《Concubines and Courtesans: Women in Chinese Erotic Art》,布🍸😼魯塞爾,2010年,圖版65
The Chinese Pleasure Garden: Erotic Art from the Bertholet Collection, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, 2011.
Gardens of Pleasure: Sex in Ancient China. An Exhibition of the Ferdinand M. Bertholet Collection, Hong Kong, 2014, fig. 13.
《The Chinese Pleasure Garden:♑ Erotic Art from the Bertholet Collꦏection》,亞洲藝術博物館,柏林,2011年
《愉悅滿園:貝氏中國古代情色藝術珍藏》,香港,2014年,圖13
See a similar mirror included in the exhibition Behind the Chinese Mirror: The Art of the Mirrorsmith in Pre-Ming China, Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art, London, 2003, cat. no. 12, where the author states that this type of minimalistic des🌺ign came into fashion ☂after the fall of the Tang dynasty.
此風月圖鑑背面飾四對男女,逕自交歡,姿態不一,恣情纏綿。相類方鏡,可參考《Behind the Chinese Mirror: The Art of the Mirrorsmith in Pr𒐪e-Ming China》展覽中例,覺是軒,倫敦,2003年,編號12,作者指此類簡潔構圖,唐後已漸流行。