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PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT AND MEE-DIN MOORE
COLLECTION
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A RARE LARGE SILVERED-BRONZE SQUARE ‘LION AND For a related square mirror of lion and grapevine motif, see Bronze
GRAPEVINE’ MIRROR Mirrors of Ancient China. The Donald H. Graham Jr. Collection.
Tang Dynasty, 7th-8th Century Honolulu, 1994, catalogue 76, pp. 212-213. Another square mirror
Cast in relief in one side with a large central pierced lion knop with the same subject but differently placed, see Sotheby’s, New York,
surrounded by smaller lions amidst grapevines within a circular roundel 20 March 2007, lot 540.
surrounded by further scrolling grapevine with four birds at the corners,
all within a chamfered classic scroll border, the reverse plain.
5 7/8in (17.8cm) across

$4,000 - 7,000
唐 七至八世紀 海獸葡萄紋鍍銀銅方鏡

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