Silvered bronze Hand mirror - 15 cm (No reserve price)
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Selected by Ruth Garrido Vila
Directed the Ifergan Collection Museum, specialising in Phoenician and Mediterranean archaeology.
Estimate € 150 - € 200
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A Tang Dynasty style silvered bronze scholar mirror, round 15 cm in diameter, from China, antique with fair condition and possible missing parts, featuring a seated scholar and musician in a garden and a convex silvered surface showing losses.
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A tang dynasty style silvered bronze scholar mirror.
Of rounded form, depicting a seated scholar and musician in a garden setting.
On the face of the mirror, the scholar is being waited on by a servant while the musician is seem playing an instrument.
Both are seated beneath a tree and a pair of phoenix while a crane dances in the foreground.
The silvered reflected surface is gently convex.
There are losses to the silvered surface, with oxidised edges and signs of verdigris.
Approximately 15 cm's in diameter.
From a private collection. Purchased online via an online retailer.
A tang dynasty style silvered bronze scholar mirror.
Of rounded form, depicting a seated scholar and musician in a garden setting.
On the face of the mirror, the scholar is being waited on by a servant while the musician is seem playing an instrument.
Both are seated beneath a tree and a pair of phoenix while a crane dances in the foreground.
The silvered reflected surface is gently convex.
There are losses to the silvered surface, with oxidised edges and signs of verdigris.
Approximately 15 cm's in diameter.
From a private collection. Purchased online via an online retailer.
Details
Era
Before 1400
Bronze type
Silvered bronze
Country of origin
China
Material
Bronze
Dynastic style/period
Replica of Tang Dynasty
Style
Antique
Colour
Silver
Condition
Fair condition - heavily used & with possibly minor parts missing
External height
15 cm
Sold with stand
No
External width
15 cm
Internal height
15 cm
Internal width
15 cm
Diameter
15 cm
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