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THREE CAST BRONZE MIRRORS A SILVERED BRONZE 'LION AND PHOENIX' FOLIATE-RIMMED
Tang Dynasty MIRROR
The first, an eight-bracket lobed mirror with a thick slanted edge Tang Dynasty
enclosing discrete cloud scrolls separated by a raised band from the Elegantly cast with a central knob surrounded by paired leaping lions
central field of four birds in flight between branches of baoxianghua, alternating with a pair phoenix separated by artemisia branches within
centered by a lion-form knop; the second and third both 'lion and an eight-petal rim framing birds in flight and fruiting branches.
grapevine' mirrors, the central field cast with four lions surrounded by 6 1/4in (15.9cm) diam
clusters of grapes enclosing a beast-form knop, set off by a circular
ridge draped with further lush grapevines and birds in flight, all within a $1,500 - 2,500
slanted rim cast with a row of tiny, discrete cloud scrolls. (3)
5 5/8in (13.6cm) diam; 唐 雙鸞對獅菱花鏡
4 1/4in (10.7cm) diam;
4 1/4in (10.7cm) diam Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價
$1,500 - 2,000
Compare the larger bronze mirror of the same design from the
唐 狻猊鈕鴛鴦菱花鏡一面 狻猊珍禽葡萄鏡兩面 collection of Charles Lang Freer, now in the National Museum of
Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., illustrated on the
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. museum's website (acc. no. F1929.17).
本拍品不設底價
Compare the eight-bracket lobed mirror of very similar design,
acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1922, illustrated on the
museum's website (acc, no. 22.141.5).
Compare the very similar 'lion and grapevine' mirror also with the
grapevine climbing over the inner ridge, in the Cleveland Museum of
Art and illustrated by Ju-hsi Chou in Circles of Reflection: the Carter
Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Cleveland, 2000, p.66, no.56,
where the author notes another similar example unearthed from the
tomb of Anpu and his wife (d. 664 and 704, respectively), therefore
attributing the Cleveland example to the late 7th century.

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