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AN EXTREMELY RARE INSCRIBED GOLD- 東漢 鐵錯金獸紋鏡
INLAID IRON MIRROR, EASTERN HAN
DYNASTY 來源：
Diameter 4¼ in., 10.8 cm Patricia Bauman 及 John Landrum Bryant 伉儷收
藏，得於1990年代
PROVENANCE
Collection of Patricia Bauman and John Landrum Bryant,
acquired in the 1990s. 出版：
Michael C. Teller，《A Selection of Chinese
LITERATURE Masterpieces from the Bauman-Bryant
Michael C. Teller, A Selection of Chinese Masterpieces from Collection》，紐約，2006年
the Bauman-Bryant Collection, New York, 2006.
It is rare to find a Han dynasty iron mirror, and even rarer to
find one with such well-preserved gold inlay. The intricate
gold inlay depicts mythical beasts and stylized scrolls.
This decoration is divided into four sections, each with a
single indistinct character. Three are decipherable as sun
(‘descendant’), chang (‘long’) and xuan (‘proclaim’).
A gold-inlaid mirror decorated with figures on thrones from
the Carl Kempe Collection, included in the exhibition Chinese
Gold, Silver and Porcelain: the Kempe Collection, Asia House
Gallery, New York, 1971, cat. no. 13, was sold in our London
rooms, 14th May 2008, lot 34. A more closely related mirror
to the present example, similarly oxidized and decorated
with five animals design is in the National Museum of China,
illustrated on the Museum’s website.
⊖ $ 40,000-60,000

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A RARE BRONZE ‘FOUR DRAGONS’ MIRROR, 東周 戰國 銅龍紋鏡
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING STATES
PERIOD 來源：
Diameter 4⅝ in., 11.6 cm Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949) 收藏，於1934年已入
藏
PROVENANCE
Raymonde Feron-Stoclet (1897-1963) 夫人收藏
Collection of Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), by 1934.
Collection of Madame Raymonde Feron-Stoclet (1897-1963).
展覽：
EXHIBITED 《Bronzes chinois des dynasties Tcheou, Ts’in et
Bronzes chinois des dynasties Tcheou, Ts’in et Han, Musée Han》，橘園美術館，巴黎，1934年，編號33
de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1934, cat. no. 33. 《中國藝術國際展覽會》，皇家美術學院，倫
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of 敦，1935年，編號424
Arts, London, 1935, cat. no. 424.
LITERATURE 出版：
梅原末治，〈Two Ancient Chinese Mirrors〉，
Umehara Sueji, ‘Two Ancient Chinese Mirrors’, Kôkogaku
Zasshi, Tokyo, 1930, XX:1, pp 20-27. 《Kôkogaku Zasshi》，東京，1930年，期XX，編
H. F. E. Visser, Asiatic Art in Private Collections of Holland 號1，頁20至27
and Belgium, Amsterdam, 1947, pl. 49, no. 79. H. F. E. Visser，《Asiatic Art in Private Collections of
Georges A. Salles and Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Collection Holland and Belgium》，阿姆斯特丹，1947年，圖版
Adolphe Stoclet: choix d’oeuvres appartenant a Madame 49，編號79
Feron-Stoclet (premiere partie), Brussels, 1956, p. 338. Georges A. Salles 及 Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt，
《Collection Adolphe Stoclet: choix d’oeuvres
⊖ $ 10,000-20,000
appartenant a Madame Feron-Stoclet (premiere
partie)》，布魯塞爾，1956年，頁338

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