A SILVERY BRONZE 'LION AND GRAPEVINE' MIRROR

TANG DYNASTY (AD 607-907)

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A SILVERY BRONZE 'LION AND GRAPEVINE' MIRROR
TANG DYNASTY (AD 607-907)
One side is cast crisply with a central lion-form knop surrounded by five large mythical beasts frolicking amidst a fruit-laden grapevine, within a narrow raised border and an outer field which depicts birds and butterflies amidst further fruiting grapevine. The reverse is plain with a silvery surface and some green and ferrous encrustation.
5¼ in. (13.2 cm.) diam., wood box

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Acquired in Hawaii, 4 April 1989.

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A very similar mirror, but without the additional butterflies and of slightly larger size (14.5 cm.), is illustrated by S. Cahill in The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, vol. I: Los Angeles, 2012, pp. 94-95.

TANG DYNASTY (AD 607-907)

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