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A bronze circular mirror with animals and inscription, Sui/early Tang dynasty (6th-7th Century).
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10 000 - 15 000 SEK
950 - 1 430 EUR
998 - 1 500 USD
Vasarahinta
8 000 SEK
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A bronze circular mirror with animals and inscription, Sui/early Tang dynasty (6th-7th Century).
The thick mirror finely cast in high relief with four lively animals racing around the knob within a sawtooth border below the circular ridge that separates the main field from an inscription set below a sawtooth band in the deep sides of the outer rim. Diameter 9,1 cm.
Wear, tarnished.
Alkuperä - Provenienssi
From the Collection of antique dealer Sten Röing (1880-1965), the collection was added to by his son Max Röing (1916-1984) during the 1950-60's, thence by descent.
Näyttelyt
Compare similar at Christies; Luminous Perfection: Fine Chinese Mirrors from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection
22 March 2012, New York, lot 1435.