In the Studio: Asian Art Featuring Works from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton

In the Studio: Asian Art Featuring Works from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton

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Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

A bronze 'mythical beast' mirror, Eastern Han dynasty | 東漢 銅瑞獸紋鏡

Lot Closed

September 28, 03:03 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A bronze 'mythical beast' mirror

Eastern Han dynasty

東漢 銅瑞獸紋鏡


the three-character inscription reads Yi zi sun (For sons and grandsons), wood stand (2)

Diameter 7 in., 17.8 cm

Collection of Arthur B. Michael (1853-1942) (bequest of 1942).
Collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, no. 1942:16.276.
Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, 1979, p. 101.