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Spiegel met apen, anonymous, -500 - -200

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Spiegel met apen, anonymous, -500 - -200

bronze (metal), d 14.8cm × h 1.0cm More details

Color code: #63686E Color code: #3D4447 Color code: #1D2326 Color code: #939AA3 Color code: #080B09 Color code: #B8C0C7

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Identification

Title(s)

Spiegel met apen

Object type

mirror

Object number

AK-MAK-30

Description

In het middenveld vijf apen die elkaar bij de staart grijpen. Het fond is gedecoreerd met komma-figuren en gebogen bundels dunne lijnen. Het patina is lichtgroen.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

-500 - -200

School / style

Zhou-dynasty (1050 B.C.-221 B.C.)

Material and Technique

Material

bronze (metal)

Measurements

diameter 14.8 cm × height 1.0 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Edgar Gutmann, Paris, 1934)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from Edgar Gutmann, Paris, frs. 2,000, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1934;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 39, cat.nr. 11
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 35
Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten, (1934) sept., afb. p. 287
Klaas Ruitenbeek, 'Aanwinst : Bronzen spiegel uit de Chu-cultuur', Aziatische Kunst 23/3 (1993), pp. 18-21.

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.610