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Phoenix mirror: Sotheby’s London, 29 February, 1972, Lot 203.
THREE BRONZE CIRCULAR MIRRORS
Warring States to Eastern Han Dynasty Twin dragons mirror: Sotheby’s London, 21 June, 1983, Lot 41.
Comprising: a silvery bronze mirror with central ribbed loop handle, Purchased Bluett & Sons Ltd. 1983.
crisply cast with a frieze of three stylised phoenix bearing elaborately
entwined bodies and angular meander, on a whorl pattern ground; a Twin birds mirror: Collection of D. David-Weill.
silvered bronze mirror cast with two stylised guei dragons, the sinuous Sotheby’s London, 29 February, 1972, lot 76.
bodies terminating with phoenix heads, within a border of twelve linked
arcs; and a small bronze mirror, the central knop surrounded by four Mirrors of the phoenix type are illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi
nipples enclosing pairs of facing birds. Quanji - 16 - Bronze Mirrors, Beijing, 1998, p. 10, no. 10, excavated in
13.5cm (5.3/8in); 10.8cm (4.1/4in) and 8.8cm (3.1/2in) diam. (3). 1952 at Changsha, Hunan province; Ancient Bronze Mirrors from the
Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2005, 1998, pp. 100-1, no. 15 (16.5
£1,200 - 1,500 cm.); one from the Sumitomo Collection in the exhibition catalogue,
CNY11,000 - 14,000 Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Sen-Oku Hakuko Kan, Kyoto, 8 January - 6
HK$13,000 - 16,000 March 2011, p. 15, no. 13 (20.3 cm.); and one illustrated by Ju-hsi
Chou, Circles of Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze
Mirrors, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000, p.28, no.6.
For a related example of the twin dragons mirror see Circles of
Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, The
Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000, p.39, no. 19.
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