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201. A rare square double-tiered mirror
Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States Period, circa 5 - 3 centuries bc.
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東周戰國時期青銅鏡
Length: 17.7 cm

An unusual square bronze mirror cast in two separate Provenance:
layers, the superior layer, with a looped knob in its centre ▪ Roger Keverne, London, U.K.
has an elaborate openwork décor consisting of four pairs
of confronting scaly dragons, bordered by and centered Exhibited:
on framed bands of intertwining scroll motifs. ▪ Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Warring States Period to
Tang Dynasty, Roger Keverne, London October 2009,
The mirror has a nice black lacquer patina with small catalogue p.8 - 9, no 1.
areas of malachite incrustation.
Published:
▪ Keverne R., Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Warring States
Period to Tang Dynasty, London October 2009,
p.8 - 9, no. 1.

Similar examples:
▪ Such double-tiered mirrors are rare, but a similar
example is illustrated in Homage to Heaven, Homage
to Earth: Chinese Treasures of the Royal Ontario
Museum, Toronto 1992, p.107, pl. 58.
▪ The decorative plate only of another such mirror is
published by Rawson J. & Bunker S., Ancient Chinese
and Ordos Bronzes, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong
Kong, Hong Kong 1990, p.228 - 229, no. 147,
▪ Another similar mirror is published by Ward P.J.
& Fidler R., The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art: A
Handbook of the Collection, New York 1993, p.282
(top right).
▪ Five other double-tiered mirrors are illustrated in
Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji, Vol.16 - Tongjing,
Beijing 1998, nos. 15 - 19, p.15 - 19, of which nos. 17 -
19 are square in shape.

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