LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC

A similar mirror of slightly smaller size (13 cm.) excavated in 1980 in Hunan province is illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 16 - Bronze Mirrors, Beijing, 1998, p. 28, no. 28. A rubbing of another similar mirror excavated at Heshanmiao, Yiyang city, Hunan province, is illustrated by Gao Zhixi, "On the Bronze Mirrors of Chu State," Wenwu 1991:5, p. 47, fig. 20, and also by D.M. O'Donoghue, "Reflection and Reception: The Origins of the Mirror in Bronze Age China," BMFEA, Stockholm, 1990, No. 62, p. 175, fig. 76, where it is discussed, p. 97.