TWO MINIATURE SILVER-DECORATED BRONZE HEXAGONAL MIRRORS
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
TWO MINIATURE SILVER-DECORATED BRONZE HEXAGONAL MIRRORS TANG DYNASTY (618-907) One is of scalloped outline and is inlaid with a silver sheet decorated in repoussé with a crouching animal loop surrounded by two lions alternating with two birds amidst leafy meander reserved on a ring-punched ground below narrow rope-twist and ring-punched borders. The loop of the hexalobed mirror is encircled by an eight-petaled flower head and two pairs of geese executed in chased silver sheet inlaid in a lacquer ground. 2 1/16 and 2 3/8 in. (5.2 and 6 cm.) across (2)
TWO MINIATURE SILVER-DECORATED BRONZE HEXAGONAL MIRRORS
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
TWO MINIATURE SILVER-DECORATED BRONZE HEXAGONAL MIRRORS TANG DYNASTY (618-907) One is of scalloped outline and is inlaid with a silver sheet decorated in repoussé with a crouching animal loop surrounded by two lions alternating with two birds amidst leafy meander reserved on a ring-punched ground below narrow rope-twist and ring-punched borders. The loop of the hexalobed mirror is encircled by an eight-petaled flower head and two pairs of geese executed in chased silver sheet inlaid in a lacquer ground. 2 1/16 and 2 3/8 in. (5.2 and 6 cm.) across (2)
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