Chinese Tang Tinned Bronze Mirror with Monkeys

TANG DYNASTY, 618-907 A.D OR LATER

6 3/4 in. (1.27 kg, 17 cm).

With one flat face, the other dished with a raised and beaded circular border; decorated with high-relief birds, beasts, floral motifs and bunches of grapes. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired UK, in the 1980s.
Property of a retired South West London doctor.

Literature

Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 17.52, for similar.

CONDITION

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