Lot 118
118
A FINE 'LION AND GRAPEVINE' MIRROR, the central pierced boss cast as a snarling lion surrounded by four similar lions and two exotic birds on a ground of fruiting vines, the outer border with dragonflies, butterflies and birds among grapes and leaves, the bronze with a dark gun-metal patina, Tang Dynasty

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A FINE 'LION AND GRAPEVINE' MIRROR, the central pierced boss cast as a snarling lion surrounded by four similar lions and two exotic birds on a ground of fruiting vines, the outer border with dragonflies, butterflies and birds among grapes and leaves, the bronze with a dark gun-metal patina, Tang Dynasty
40cm. diam.

Lot Essay

A similar example is illustrated by M.Rupert and O.Todd Chinese Bronze Mirrors, pl.14, XIV,no.113. Cf. also, Swallow, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, pl.19; M.Fedderson, Chinese Decorative Art, p.160, fig.149; P.Yetts, The Cull Bronzes, pl.XXXIII, no.30; and J.Rawson and E.Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, p.262, no.182

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