A QINGYANG GILT-BRONZE MIRROR

細節

A QINGYANG GILT-BRONZE MIRROR
LATE EASTERN HAN/EARLY WESTERN JIN DYNASTY

The central knop surrounded by two mythical beasts dividing a cash symbol and a wheel, within a band of characters below dog-tooth and chevron bands at the rim, all crisply cast, the top gilded and the reverse showing the smooth, silvery gray patina of the bronze, malachite and azurite encrustation--4 3/8in. (10.2cm.) diam.

拍品專文

Mirrors of this type, but without the gilding, are illustrated in A Treasury of the World Art, vol. 13, China (2) Qin-Han, 1962, no. 74; in the Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1939-1940, London, 1940, pl. 13(b), from Shaoxing; and one from the Collection of Donald H. Graham, Jr. by Wong Yangchung, "Bronze Mirror Art of the Han Dynasty", Orientations, December, 1988, p. 51, fig. 14