Figur. Spegelhållare. Qingdynastin

FIGURE. Hare (hollow) used as a holder for a (bronze) mirror. The hare has a longitudinal opening on its back, on both sides of this a wooden sponge. The coat is streaked and the glaze is light gray with shifting in blue green, on the wooden swamps dark brown and green, the white eye unglazed, the pupil brown black. The estate is greyish white and on the underside there are four writing characters (Huang Kien-sien tsao, “made by Huang Kien-Sien”) and a round hole. This mirror holder is an unusual object. It is shaped like a hare looking backwards over the shoulder, with room for a mirror in the shape of a lingzhi ramp mounted on the back. The whole object (with the mirror) looked like “the hare in the moon,” which is what Chinese say they see when they look at the dark the patterns on the full moon. This specimen mimics similar objects in bronze. On the underside is an engraved inscription in large characters: “made by Huang Qiunderan.” Figure. Porcelain Porstand in form of a hare with high-level brown and colourless glazes Early 18th century An unusual is this unusual stand in the av a hare unusual back over it, with a unusual in the unusual of lingzhi fungus on its back. The total assemblage (with total) like “the hare in the moon,” that Chinese people see when they look at the total of dark shapes on a full moon. This ceramic copied ceramic This in This. On the base is an incorporated option in On “made by Huang QiOn an.”