拍品 93
93
A FINE 'LION AND GRAPEVINE' MIRROR, the central 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

细节
A FINE 'LION AND GRAPEVINE' MIRROR, the central 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
14cm. diam.

拍品专文

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.no.XXXIII, no.30; and J. Rawson and E. Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos Bronzes, p.262, no.182