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A group of seven bronze mirrors
Han dynasty
Five of various sizes similarly cast with a broad outer rim canted
inward to a saw-tooth border enclosing simplified cloud patterns
and emerging birds separated by four raised bosses under a central
knob; the sixth of white bronze with a canted outer rim enclosing an
inscription under a continuous arc and central sunburst band; the
seventh cast with an outer band of sixteen continuous arcs under
a wide band of larger and smaller bosses below a further band of
sixteen arcs and a cloud-shaped central knob, all with varying degrees
of patination.
5, 4 1/2, 4 1/2, 3 3/4, 3 5/8, 3 5/8 3 5/8in
(12.7, 11.4, 11.4, 9.5, 9.2, 9.2, 9.2cm ) diameters
$3,000 - 5,000

For correlative examples see Graham, op. cit., cat. nos. 38, 33 and 31.

This lot has been in the family collection since the late 1980s.

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A group of three early mirrors
Tang dynasty
The first a white bronze mirror with thick outer eight petal-form rim
cast with five open blossoms under a central knob; the second a small
lion and grapevine mirror with a canted edge of vines suspending
clusters of ripe grapes enclosing a plain band of further clusters and
four lions cavorting around a raised finial; the third a plain small mirror
with highly canted edge and interior raised band under a central knob,
all with varying degrees of malachite encrustation.
5 3/4, 3 1/8 and 3 1/8in
(14.5, 8 and 8cm) diameters
$2,500 - 4,000

For related mirrors, see Graham, op.cit., cat. nos. 97 and 81.

This lot has been in the family collection since the late 1980s.

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A gilt bronze censer
18th century
The bombe form body supported on a short recessed foot ring, and
decorated with a gilt dissolved dragon meander under abstract chilong
handles, the interior foot bearing a six-character Xuande seal mark.
4 1/4in (10.8cm) high
$4,000 - 6,000

Provenance
Spink and Sons, London, by repute

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