A RARE CHINESE GILT-BRONZE MODEL OF A RAM

MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY

The sheep depicted reclining propped up on its two front legs, its raised head surmounted by two large ribbed horns, its wool cast with many tight curls, detailed with finely incised hairs to its head and legs, 12.8cm, 1.6kg.

Cf. Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th April 2014, Gods and Beasts - Gilt Bronzes from the Speelman Collection, lot 84 for a related 15th century gilt-bronze figure of a standing ram.