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Bronzes, Metalwork, and Sculptures
Property from a Northern California Estate
Lot 8012

A group of three early mirrors
Tang dynasty

16 December 2014, 10:00 PST
San Francisco

Sold for US$2,250 inc. premium

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A group of three early mirrors

Tang dynasty
The first a white bronze mirror with thick outer eight petal-form rim cast with five open blossoms under a central knob; the second a small lion and grapevine mirror with a canted edge of vines suspending clusters of ripe grapes enclosing a plain band of further clusters and four lions cavorting around a raised finial; the third a plain small mirror with highly canted edge and interior raised band under a central knob, all with varying degrees of malachite encrustation.
5 3/4, 3 1/8 and 3 1/8in
(14.5, 8 and 8cm) diameters

Footnotes

For related mirrors, see Graham, op.cit., cat. nos. 97 and 81.

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

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