TWO BRASS MIRRORS, JAVA, 16TH CENTURY OR EARLIER, AND TWO KERALAN OIL LAMPS, SOUTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY

Each mirror of circular slightly convex form, the reverse with a central conical projection and concentric ridges, one with a broad handle cast with four raised rectangular designs and an abstracted reptile form; each lamp of flattened circular form with concentric ridges , one with a simple copper loop handle and attached cloth, the other cast with a handle of broad cusped shape and bud-form terminal

Some wear, rusting and minor dents, as viewed.
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The larger handled mirror is closely related to one in the Linden-Museum, Stuttgart (Stuttgart 1980, p.83, no.74).