Mirror with scalloped edge, four birds and arabesques, anonymous, -500 - -200

Identification

Title(s)

Mirror with scalloped edge, four birds and arabesques

Object type

Object number

AK-MAK-29

Description

In het middenveld vier vogels, gecombineerd met zwierige arabesken; geschulpte rand. Het patina is lichtgroen en loodkleurig.

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 18.4 cm × height 1.0 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase C.T. Loo, Paris, 1933)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from C.T. Loo, Paris, fl. 437, to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1933;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Museum van Aziatische kunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : catalogus, H.F.E. Visser, cat.nr. 34
Eveline Kamstra, 'Reflectie van een Chinese spiegel', Aziatische Kunst 38 (2008), nr. 3, p. 68, afb. 4.
Robert van Langh en Menno Fitski, 'Reflecties op een spiegel', Aziatische Kunst 31/4 (2001), pp. 23-27.
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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