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Bronzes, Metalwork, and Sculptures
Property from a Northern California Estate
Lot 8010

A group of four early bronze mirrors
Han dynasty

16 December 2014, 10:00 PST
San Francisco

Sold for US$1,875 inc. premium

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A group of four early bronze mirrors

Han dynasty
Three with a wide, canted edge enclosing a small saw-tooth band under four abstract cloud patterns and emerging birds separated by raised bosses under a central pierced knob; the fourth larger mirror with a wide canted rim centered on a continuous arc design under a band of whorl patterns, all mirrors with varying degrees of patination.
4 3/4, 3 1/2, 3 and 3in
(12.1, 8.8, 7.6 and 7.6cm) diameters

Footnotes

For related examples see Donald Graham, Bronze Mirrors of Ancient China, 1994, cat. nos. 38 and 51.

This lot has been in the family collection since the late 1980s.

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