Tang-style Chinese Steel Mirror with Scholar and Creature Scenes

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A Chinese steel mirror in the Tang style, the cast disk with a continuous ruyi border encircling characters and pictorial scenes of scholars and fantastic creatures, with a central pierced section with provision for a small rope handle; the other side plain and polished. Diameter 19 cm

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