A RARE CHINESE CARVED AMBER QILIN PLAQUE 16TH/17TH CENTURY Finely carved in relief with two fighting qilins forming an oval plaque, each with a fierce expression, their horns, manes and backbones delicately detailed with hair, the amber with varying honey-coloured tones, 7.5cm. Provenance: from a British private collection, purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., 16th September 1992. A copy of the is available. Cf. D A Grimaldi, Amber: Window to the Past, p.196, for another mythical beast amber plaque from the Drummond Collection in the American Meum of Natural History.十六/十七世紀 琥珀雕雙麒麟佩來源：英國私人收藏，1992年9月16日購於Spink & Son Ltd.（附發票複印件）。