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PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN AND SIMONE
HARTMAN COLLECTION
317
A BRONZE MIRROR AND A GROUP OF THREE
EARLY BRONZE FITTINGS
Eastern Zhou - Tang Dyansty
The bronze mirror cast with two romping beasts
under a central knob enclosed by sawtooth and
beaded flanking a long inscription, Sui/Tang
Dynasty; a pair of mask-and-ring handles intricately
modeled with in high relief with taotie masks
suspending single rings cast with interlocking
C-commas and volutes, Han Dynasty; a narrow
bronze fitting of rectangular shape, the central
U-shape extension cast with a taotie mask under
paired slender chilong panels enclosed by leiwen,
the underside cast with four brackets and a hook for
attachment, Eastern Zhou Dynasty/Warring States
period. (4)
Mirror: 5 5/8in (13.5cm) diam;
Mask-and-ring handles: 3 1/2in (8.9cm);
Fitting: 13 1/2in (34.3cm) long

$2,000 - 3,000
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隋/唐 瑞獸銅鏡一面
漢 活環銅鋪首一對
東周/戰國 饕餮魑龍紋銅飾一件

The inscription on the bronze mirror may be read as:
玉匣聊開鏡 輕灰拭故塵 光如一片水 影似兩邊人 吉

Bronze mirrors with the same poem but slightly
different wording exist in various designs. Compare,
for example, a bronze mirror decorated with ginkgo
leaves design encircled by this poem, in the Palace
Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Reflections of the
Emperor: The Collection and Culture of Mirrors at
the Qing Court, Taipei, 2015, pp.80-81, no.I-29,
described as Sui-early Tang dynasty.
PROPERTY FROM THE ALAN AND SIMONE
HARTMAN COLLECTION
318
A GROUP OF EARLY BRONZE FITTINGS
Eastern Zhou - Han Dynasty
The first, an elegant silver inlaid fitting in the form of
an animal head, the shaft pierced for attachment;
two cast bronze tubular bracket ornaments with
pierced chilong-panel extensions; two tubular
ornaments with lacking extensions but with
matching decoration; and a large hollow bracket
fitting cast with an abstract taotie panel under
triangular stiff leaves. (6)
3 15/16in (10cm) long;
2in (5.1cm) long;
2in (5.1cm) long;
2 1/8in (5.3cm) long;
2 1/8 (5.3cm) long;
5 1/2in (14cm) long
$2,000 - 3,000
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東周至漢 青銅飾六件

Provenance:
Largest fitting: Spink & Son Ltd., London (according
to label)
來源：
大件銅飾：倫敦 Spink & Son Ltd. 古董行 （根據
標籤）
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