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This auction house doesn't seem to know beans about Qilin 'metaphysiology'. Their carving might well have come out of Bali with those garudas shown on the website, either that or somebody found it amongst the wooden horses on an old merry-go-round.
FYI, the Chinese name for the Qilin is comprised of two characters standing for the male (Qi) and the female (Lin). According to my copy of the time-honored Mathews Chinese-English Dictionary, this auspicious creature has the body of a deer, tail of an ox, hoofs of a horse, one fleshy horn, and multicolored hair on its back, along with a belly that's yellow. It neither treads on the grass nor eats anything living.
Good luck,
Bill H.
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