Emporium Hamburg
Auction 81-83 23-26 Oct 2018
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A very fine eight-petal bronze mirror
With a central knob in the shape of a squatting beast, surrounded by a band decorated in high relief with four patterned medallions and lower patterns, the eight petals decorated with twisting vines and lowers, deep brown patina, some corrosion.
Diameter: 12.5cm
Style of: Tang (618 – 906), age determination uncertain
Discovering Art, Volume III, no 27, pg.36, fig.a. Master Pieces of Chinese Bronze Mirrors in the National Palace Museum Taipei, Taiwan, 1971 catalogue, pl.27, 32, 39.
With a central knob in the shape of a squatting beast, surrounded by a band decorated in high relief with four patterned medallions and lower patterns, the eight petals decorated with twisting vines and lowers, deep brown patina, some corrosion.
Diameter: 12.5cm
Style of: Tang (618 – 906), age determination uncertain
Discovering Art, Volume III, no 27, pg.36, fig.a. Master Pieces of Chinese Bronze Mirrors in the National Palace Museum Taipei, Taiwan, 1971 catalogue, pl.27, 32, 39.