A RARE LARGE FINELY CAST BRONZE MIRROR

SUI/EARLY TANG DYNASTY, 6TH-7TH CENTURY

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A RARE LARGE FINELY CAST BRONZE MIRROR
SUI/EARLY TANG DYNASTY, 6TH-7TH CENTURY
The large central knob encircled by four pictorial scenes, including two scenes of an immortal with mythical creatures and two scenes of leonine beasts, all separated by stylized blossoms, all within a narrow border containing a lengthy inscription in clerical script in relief, encircled by a band of twelve animals, some mythical, including a carp, dragon-headed fish and phoenixes, all below a narrow band of arabesque scroll on the canted rim, with an attractive silvery patina with patches of blue-green encrustation
9½ in. (24 cm.) diam., box

拍品专文

Compare four bronze mirrors cast with similar imagery and poetic inscriptions, dated to the Sui-Tang period, from the Donald H. Graham Jr. Collection, illustrated by T. Nakano, Bronze Mirrors from Ancient China, Hong Kong, 1994, pp. 197, 199, 203 and 205, and a related mirror dated to the Sui dynasty cast with the animals of the four directions encircled by a band of twelve animals, some mythical, illustrated p. 195.