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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  Asian Art
• Sale Date:
  07 Dec 2022 ~ Session 1 (Lots 1 - 143) 2pm (AEDT)
  07 Dec 2022 ~ Session 2 (Lots 201 - 294) 6pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  54
• Lot Description:
  A silvered bronze circular mirror
  Qin to early Western Han dynasty
  with box, 15.5cm diam.
• Provenance:
  C. C. Teng, Taipei, no.002418 (label); The Hsiao family collection, Melbourne
• Notes:
  The stylised panchi-motif, a coiled dragon with no feet, is quintessential of the Qin and early Han dynasty. Many similar mirrors are seen in numerous important collections, compare with one previously in the Robert Ellsworth collection, albeit larger, see Christie's New York, 22 Mar 2012, lot 1407, and another one in the collection of Xianyang Municipal Museum, which was exhibited with The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors, Art Gallery of New South Wales. See the exhibition catalogue, Liu Yang and Edmund Capon, Sydney, 2010, p.175, no.115, and also one illustrated in The Museum of East Asian Art: Inaugural Exhibition Volume 2 Chinese Metalwares and Decorative Arts, Bath, 1993, p.75, pl.271
• Estimate:
  A$1,200 - 1,800
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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