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TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
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TWO SILVERY BRONZE MIRRORS
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
One of eight-lobed outline, the plain knob flanked by a pair of phoenixes grasping a knotted tassle in their beaks while standing on lotus sprigs, with a double-stemmed lotus plant above and a mandarin duck grasping a flower sprig in its beak standing atop a lotus leaf below, within a plain raised border and clouds and leaf sprays alternating in the lobed outer field; the other mirror unusually undecorated, the central knob encircled by plain fields divided by a wedge-shaped raised border, with inward-canted outer border
5¼ and 4 11/16 in. (13.5 and 12 cm.) diam. (2)
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
One of eight-lobed outline, the plain knob flanked by a pair of phoenixes grasping a knotted tassle in their beaks while standing on lotus sprigs, with a double-stemmed lotus plant above and a mandarin duck grasping a flower sprig in its beak standing atop a lotus leaf below, within a plain raised border and clouds and leaf sprays alternating in the lobed outer field; the other mirror unusually undecorated, the central knob encircled by plain fields divided by a wedge-shaped raised border, with inward-canted outer border
5¼ and 4 11/16 in. (13.5 and 12 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
First mirror: Frank Caro, New York, prior to 1965.
Second mirror: probably Frank Caro, New York, prior to 1965.
Second mirror: probably Frank Caro, New York, prior to 1965.
Exhibited
Both mirrors: Columbia University Exhibition, February 1965.
Art of the T'ang Dynasty and its Antecedents, Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, March 1967.
Art of the T'ang Dynasty and its Antecedents, Columbia University, Low Memorial Library, March 1967.
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