A large bronze mirror, Tang dynasty | 唐 銅雙鳳狻猊紋鏡

Compare a slightly smaller mirror in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Bronze Mirrors in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl.36; a lobed mirror, published in Duan Shu'an (ed.), Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji 16 - Tongjing [Collection of Chinese Bronzes 16 - Bronze Mirrors], Beijing, 1998, pl.144; and a third example excavated in Yichuan county, Henan province, 1948, illustrated in Five Thousand Years of Chinese Art Series: Bronze Mirrors II, Taipei, 1993, pl.192. See also a gilt-silver-inset example from the collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d.1978), sold in our New York rooms, 21 September 2021, lot 48.