TWO BRONZE MIRRORS

WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)

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TWO BRONZE MIRRORS
WARRING STATES PERIOD (475-221 BC)
Both flat cast with intertwined scrolling dragons reserved on a patterned ground, the larger with four dragons, one leg of each dragon extending back and then forming a zigzag terminating in a claw, all within narrow hatchured bands; the smaller with three dragons, the knob in the center rising from an openwork surround of a striding dragon; both mirrors with satiny black patina
9½ and 7 5/8 in. (24.2 and 19.3 cm.) diam., box (2)

Provenance

Both: J.T. Tai & Co., New York; first 1966 or earlier, second 1965.

Exhibited

Larger mirror: Aspects of Ch'ang-Sha Culture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21 August - 24 September 1967.

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Lot Essay

The smaller mirror with its very rare openwork knob is similar to one of smaller size (16.5 cm. diam.) excavated in Changsha, Hunan province, in 1953, and now in the Hunan Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 16 - Mirrors, Beijing, 1998, p. 9, no. 9.

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