TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

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A SMALL SILVERY-BRONZE CIRCULAR 'MYTHICAL BEASTS' MIRROR
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The mirror is cast on the reverse with a long poetic inscription within one of the bands describing the luminous purity and enduring clarity of spirit.
4 ¾ in. (12.1 cm.) diam., lucite and metal stand

Provenance

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, 10 December 2002, no. 0959.

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Lot Essay

The poetic inscription on this mirror is purely ornamental and does not relate to the mythical beasts it surrounds. See a related bronze mirror with the same inscription, but decorated with lions and grapevine, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of Special Exhibition of Bronze Mirrors in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, pp. 150-1, pl. 73.

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