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An archaic bronze ‘chi dragon’ mirror An archaic bronze ‘four dragons’ mirror
Eastern Zhou dynasty Late Eastern Zhou/Warring States Period
Thinly cast in the form of a circular disc, one side plain and the other Cast in the form of a circular disc, decorated with four ‘S’-shaped
with a raised semi-circular knop encircled by an elaborate frieze of four archaistic dragons dividing raised bosses on a swirling ground, encircling
playing chi dragons above archaistic leiwen ground. a domed knop at the centre within a band of raised ‘half-moons’ at the
7.3cm diam. border.
HK$30,000 - 50,000 9.8cm diam.
US$3,900 - 6,500 HK$15,000 - 25,000
US$1,900 - 3,200
東周 螭獸紋銅鏡
東周晚期/戰國時期 四龍紋銅鏡

A similarly decorated bronze mirror with four dragons motif dated
to the Eastern Zhou/Warring States Period in the Carter Collection
was exhibited in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. See Circles of
Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Cleveland,
2000.

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