Lot Essay
Compare the mirror of this pattern, also with foliate rim, included in the exhibition, Treasures from the Shanghai Museum, Queensland Art Gallery, 1990, Catalogue, p.130, no.72, where it is noted that a similarly decorated mirror was unearthed from Tang tomb no.90 at the Wangjiafen site in the eastern suburbs of Xian city, Shaanxi province, March, 1955; and the mirror sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 1996, lot 211.