Mirror with stylized bird-dragon motifs, anonymous, c. -300 - c. -200

Identification

Title(s)

Mirror with stylized bird-dragon motifs

Object type

mirror

Object number

AK-MAK-33

Description

Drie draken met staart eindigend in zigzaglozenge. Het patina is grijsgroen.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

c. -300 - c. -200

School / style

Warring States Period

Material and Technique

Material

bronze (metal)

Measurements

diameter 16.4 cm × height 0.9 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Orvar Karlbeck, 1931)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the dealer Orvar Karlbeck, fl. 150, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1931 or 1932;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Later Chinese bronzes, Rose Kerr, p. 90-92
Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 38
The Museum of Far Eastern antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet) Stockholm : bulletin, Vol. 13, p. 93, F 24
Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten, (1935) febr. p. 93, afb. 2
Filippo Salviati, 'Stylistic features of some pre-Han Chinese mirrors in the Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam', Aziatische Kunst 27/1 (1997), pp. 21-28.

Persistent URL

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