LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD/EARLY WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, CIRCA 3RD CENTURY BC

A similar mirror excavated in the central plains of China is illustrated in Ancient Bronze Mirrors from the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2005, pp. 98-9, no. 14, where it is noted that similar three-dragon pattern mirrors have been found in Jin Village, Luoyang, Henan province. Another in the Sumitomo Collection is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Sen-Oku Hakuko Kan, Kyoto, 8 January - 6 March 2011, no. 15. See, also, the two similar mirrors illustrated by B. Karlgren, "Huai and Han," BMFEA, Stockholm, 1941, No. 13, pl. 28 (D14) and pl. 29 (D 15) from the Hosokawa Collection.