MID WESTERN HAN DYNASTY, 2ND CENTURY BC

A similar mirror dated Western Han from Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, is illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 16 - Bronze Mirrors, Beijing, 1998, p. 51, no. 50. Another is illustrated in Ancient Bronze Mirrors from the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2005, pp. 148-9, no. 37. See, also, the mirror in the Sumitomo Collection illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Sen-Oku Hakuko Kan, 8 January - 6 March 2011, p. 21, no. 25.