A SMALL BRONZE CIRCULAR MIRROR WITH "SANSKRIT SCRIPT"

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A SMALL BRONZE CIRCULAR MIRROR WITH "SANSKRIT SCRIPT"
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The flat circular knob cast with a single "sanskrit" character within concentric circles of further characters in the inner and outer fields
3½ in. (8.8 cm.) diam., ¼ in. (.5 cm.) thick, box
248g

Provenance

Robert H. Ellsworth Collection, New York, acquired in Hong Kong, 1989.

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Lot Essay

A similar small bronze fangzi jing ("sanskrit script") mirror of comparable size (9 cm.) in the Sumitomo Collection, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Sen-Oku Hakuko Kan, Kyoto, 8 January - 6 March 2011, p. 86, no. 169. Another dated Jin dynasty (1115-1234) is illustrated in Ancient Bronze Mirrors in the National Museum of History, Taipei, 1996, p. 161. See, also, the rubbing of two similar mirrors illustrated in "Sanskrit Bronze Mirrors and Northern Dynasties Bronze Buddha Sculptures Excavated in Zaozhuang," Kaogu 1986:6, p. 511, figs. 1 and 2.

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