A SILVERY BRONZE ZODIAC MIRROR

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A SILVERY BRONZE ZODIAC MIRROR
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The knob formed by a tortoise swimming in a square pond within square borders, the innermost cast with petals enclosing characters, the other with the animals of the zodiac, with four celestial beings in the outermost field, the silvery patina with extensive malachite, azurite and ferrous encrustation on both sides
5 15/16 in. (15 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong, 1990.

Exhibited

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006.

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Lot Essay

A very similar mirror, in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, was included in the exhibition, Toukyou (Tang Mirrors), Sen-oku Hakuko Kan Museum, Kyoto, 2006, no. 61. Another is illustrated by W.P. Yetts, The Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. II, London, 1930, pl. XIV, no. B 25.

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