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A LARGE BRONZE ‘SHAN’ MIRROR 戰國晚期 青銅五山鏡
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC
The mirror is crisply cast with a ribbed loop surrounded by a 來源
circular border and five feathers enclosed within the five-pointed Galaxie Art & Gift Company，香港，1993年11月28日
star created by the connected inner edges of the five shan, 本件五山鏡鑄造精良、尺寸較大，同類五山鏡可參照上海博物館收藏一
‘mountain’, characters, all reserved on a ground of feather pattern, 例，載於《Ancient Bronze Mirrors in the Shanghai Museum》，
with thin upward-curved rim. The bronze has a silvery grey patina 上海，2005年，頁78-9。
with some malachite and azurite encrustations.
9 Ω in. (24.2 cm.) diam., box

HK$800,000-1,500,000 US$110,000-190,000
PROVENANCE
Galaxie Art & Gift Company, Hong Kong, 28 November 1993
Compare a very similar mirror illustrated in Ancient Bronze Mirrors in
the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2005, pp. 78-9, no. 4; one illustrated
in Ancient Bronze Mirrors in the National Museum of History, Taipei,
1996, p. 85; and another in the collection of T.Y. King, illustrated by
B. Karlgren, “Huai and Han”, BMFEA 13, 1941, pl. 16 (C 44).

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