Mirror with geometric patterns and stylized animals, anonymous, 200 - 300

Title(s)

Mirror with geometric patterns and stylized animals

Object type

• mirror

Object number

AK-MAK-37

Description

Taoistische goden en hemelse dieren; band met vierkantjes waarop karakters afgewisseld zijn met half cirkelvormige inkepingen. Het patina is geelgroen en donkergroen.

Artist

• anonymous

Place

China

Dating

200 - 300

Material

• bronze (metal)

Measurements

diameter 9.3 cm × height 0.8 cm

Credit line

• On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase L. Michon, Paris, 1932)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 42
• Filippo Salviati, 'Stylistic features of some pre-Han Chinese mirrors in the Rijksmuseum Collection, Amsterdam', Aziatische Kunst 27/1 (1997), pp. 21-28.