Mirror

25-220

Chinese

Bronze

Diam.: 7 3/8 in.

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

61.16

Provenance: [William H. Wolff, Inc., New York]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum (Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), 1961

Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Timeless Grandeur: Art from China"
April 25, 2002 - June 12, 2005

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Chinese Metalwork" July 12 - November 27, 1988 (07/12/1988 - 11/27/1988)

Published ReferencesTrubner, Henry, Rathbun, William J., and Kaputa, C. A., "Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum", Seattle: 1973. p. 145, No: 89

Hayashi Minao, "On some motifs in Han Bronze Mirror Decoration" in Toho Gahuho (The Journal of Oriental Studies), Kyoto, No. 44. February 1973. No.18, No.21

Chugoku Bijutsu, (Chinese Art) Ritual Bronzes and Jades, Vol. IV, No. 84, (Kodansha, 1973)

SAM. Engagement Book 1967. Seattle, Seattle Art Museum: 1967. (August 13-19)

"Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums” Archives of the Chinese Art Society. Vol. XVI. 1962, p. 112, Fig. 32

Narayama, Mitsuteru. Eastern Han Art and the Regional Culture of Sichuan. Tokyo: Waseda University Press, 2017; p.106, reproduced fig. 2-1.

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