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A VERY RARE BRONZE ‘EIGHT DAOIST TRIGRAMS’ MIRROR
QIANLONG PERIOD, DATED TO 1784 AND OF THE PERIOD
The mirror is cast with eigh-lobed foliate rim, surmounted by a central lotus-shaped knop.
The back is decorated with eight Daoist trigrams divided by a intricate network of characters
within raised border lines and is engraved with an eight-character inscription, da qing qian long
jia chen nian zhi (made in the jia chen cyclical year of the grand Qing Qianlong reign).
7º in. (18.4 cm.) diam.
$40,000-60,000
A Qianlong ‘Eight Daoist Trigrams’ mirror of very similar decoration, but with a bracket-lobed rim and
inscribed with a ren yin date (1782), from the Qing court collection and still housed in Palace Museum,
Beijing is illustrated and discussed by He Lin, Collections of the Palace Museum: Copper Mirrors, Beijing,
2007, pp. 264-265, no. 168. The author noted that mirror was made by the imperial workshop in Beijing.
清乾隆 八卦紋鏡 大清乾隆甲辰年制款
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