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A SQUARE SILVERED BRONZE MIRROR A LARGE LOBED SILVERED BRONZE ‘DRAGON’ MIRROR
Probably Tang Dynasty Probably Tang Dynasty
Decorated with five mountain peaks, stylised exotic birds and With eight petal-like lobes, a large three-clawed writhing dragon in
flowering plants, fitted box. the centre coiled around the central knop, amidst wispy clouds, box.
12.4cm (4.7/8in) wide. 30.2cm (12in) wide (2).
£1,000 - 1,500 £2,000 - 3,000
HK$9,800 - 15,000 HK$20,000 - 29,000
CNY8,900 - 13,000 CNY18,000 - 27,000
Provenance Provenance
Quek Kiok Lee Collection (1921 – 2018), Singapore, and thence by Quek Kiok Lee Collection (1921 – 2018), Singapore, and thence by
descent descent
Purchased from Alex Koh on 14 October 1999. Purchased from Alex Koh, International, on 6 February 1999.

Compare with a near identical square-form mirror from the Lloyd Compare with a Tang Dynasty ‘dragon’ mirror, ‘Circles of Reflection:
Cotsen Collection of bronze Mirrors, previously housed in the The Carter Collection of Chinese Mirrors’, The Cleveland Museum of
Huntington Museum, California and donated to the Shanghai Art, 2000, no. 72, p.78.
Museum collection, catalogue no. 77. Collector’s note: see Shanghai Museum Catalogue no. 86. and
another in Mandarin, page 122-52-1.

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