A BRONZE 'TLV' CIRCULAR MIRROR cast around the central pierced knop with a shallow-relief field comprising an inner square framing the characters of the 'Twelve Celestial Branches', the Chines Zodiac Signs, dividing conical studs surrounded by a frieze of mythical beasts, birds, the Spirits of the Four Directions, and TLV motifs within a sawtooth border and an outer border of abstracted charging animals, the reverse with malachite encrustaceon over the bright silver finish, Tang Dynasty

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A BRONZE 'TLV' CIRCULAR MIRROR cast around the central pierced knop with a shallow-relief field comprising an inner square framing the characters of the 'Twelve Celestial Branches', the Chines Zodiac Signs, dividing conical studs surrounded by a frieze of mythical beasts, birds, the Spirits of the Four Directions, and TLV motifs within a sawtooth border and an outer border of abstracted charging animals, the reverse with malachite encrustaceon over the bright silver finish, Tang Dynasty
19cm. diam.

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