A SILVERY BRONZE EIGHT-LOBED MIRROR

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

Details

A SILVERY BRONZE EIGHT-LOBED MIRROR
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The central knob surrounded by a pair of phoenixes to the sides and two florets above and below, with small flower sprigs and insects alternating in the lobed rim
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Todd collection.
Rare Art, New York, early 1980s.
European private collection.

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Lot Essay

Compare the related mirror of this type and of comparable size in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated by Ju-hsi Chou, in Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Cleveland, 2000, p. 74, no. 67.

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