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Lot 8011
A group of seven bronze mirrors Han dynasty
16 December 2014, 10:00 PST
San FranciscoSold for US$5,000 inc. premium
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A group of seven bronze mirrors
Han dynasty
Five of various sizes similarly cast with a broad outer rim canted inward to a saw-tooth border enclosing simplified cloud patterns and emerging birds separated by four raised bosses under a central knob; the sixth of white bronze with a canted outer rim enclosing an inscription under a continuous arc and central sunburst band; the seventh cast with an outer band of sixteen continuous arcs under a wide band of larger and smaller bosses below a further band of sixteen arcs and a cloud-shaped central knob, all with varying degrees of patination.
5, 4 1/2, 4 1/2, 3 3/4, 3 5/8, 3 5/8 3 5/8in
(12.7, 11.4, 11.4, 9.5, 9.2, 9.2, 9.2cm ) diameters
Five of various sizes similarly cast with a broad outer rim canted inward to a saw-tooth border enclosing simplified cloud patterns and emerging birds separated by four raised bosses under a central knob; the sixth of white bronze with a canted outer rim enclosing an inscription under a continuous arc and central sunburst band; the seventh cast with an outer band of sixteen continuous arcs under a wide band of larger and smaller bosses below a further band of sixteen arcs and a cloud-shaped central knob, all with varying degrees of patination.
5, 4 1/2, 4 1/2, 3 3/4, 3 5/8, 3 5/8 3 5/8in
(12.7, 11.4, 11.4, 9.5, 9.2, 9.2, 9.2cm ) diameters
Footnotes
For correlative examples see Graham, op. cit., cat. nos. 38, 33 and 31.
This lot has been in the family collection since the late 1980s.














