A large Chinese bronze mirror with turquoise and gold or gilt silver inlays, Warring States Period

Full title: A large Chinese bronze mirror with turquoise and gold or gilt silver inlays, Warring States PeriodDescription:Dia.: 30 cm Provenance:- The collection of Mr. and Mrs. S., Gent, Belgium.- Acquired in September 2006 from Het Magazijn, Gent, Belgium, with their certificate of authenticity.- Acquired from a private collection in Northern-Thailand, according to the certificate. Ref.: - Koller, Zurich, Oct. 29, 2013, for a similar but smaller turquoise- and gold-inlaid mirror. (sold CHF 42.000) (link)- Christie's, New York, March 22, 2012, for a smaller turqoise-inlaid mirror. (sold USD 16.250) (link)- Another turquoise-inlaid mirror, also with three rings, excavated at Linzi (a city of the Qi state), Shandong province, is illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 16 - Bronze Mirrors, Beijing, 1998, p. 32, no. 32.- The same also published in T. Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Freer Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 81, where it is noted that other mirrors with suspension loops at the rim were excavated from a tomb at Shiertai, Chaoyang county, Liaoning province.