A SILVERY BRONZE ZODIAC MIRROR

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A SILVERY BRONZE ZODIAC MIRROR
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
The knob formed by a tortoise swimming in a square pond within square borders, the innermost cast with petals enclosing characters, the other with the animals of the zodiac, with four celestial beings in the outermost field, the silvery patina with extensive malachite, azurite and ferrous encrustation on both sides
5 15/16 in. (15 cm.) diam., box

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Acquired in Hong Kong, 1990.

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Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2002-2006.

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拍品专文

A very similar mirror, in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, was included in the exhibition, Toukyou (Tang Mirrors), Sen-oku Hakuko Kan Museum, Kyoto, 2006, no. 61. Another is illustrated by W.P. Yetts, The Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. II, London, 1930, pl. XIV, no. B 25.