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Larger mirrors with TLV pattern are known. A mirror with similar major patterns to the present lot was excavated from a Han tomb at Hejiacun, located in the western outskirts of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Arts of China, Neolithic Cultures to the T'ang Dynasty, Recent Discoveries, Tokyo, 1968, p. 86, fig. 144. This large example (20.3 cm diam.) has instead a ground of small fish and birds, unlike the present feather ground. Also see a larger mirror (16.2 cm. diam.) of this type in the collection of the Harvard Arts Museums, sold at Christie's New York, 5 April 2011, lot 400.