MID WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 2ND CENTURY BC

Similar mirrors are illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 16 - Bronze Mirrors, Beijing, 1998, p. 51, no. 50; one from the Sumitomo Collection in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Sen-Oku Hakuko Kan, 8 January - 6 March 2011, p. 21, no. 25; and in Ancient Bronze Mirrors from the Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, 2005, pp. 148-9, no. 37. See, also, the similar mirror illustrated by Ju-hsi Chou, Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000, p. 37, no. 16.