![]() As used herein, the term "bid price" means the price at which a lot is successfully knocked down to the purchaser. As used herein, "Bonhams," "we" and "us" refer to Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp.ġ. If live online bidding is available for the subject auction, additional terms and conditions of sale relating to online bidding will apply see for the supplemental terms. and any consignor of such property for whom we act as agent. The following Conditions of Sale, as amended by any published or posted notices or verbal announcements during the sale, constitute the entire terms and conditions on which property listed in the catalog shall be offered for sale or sold by Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. Gugong tongqi tulu (Illustrated Catalogue of Bronzes in the Palace Museum Collection), Taipei, 1958. Two other mirrors of this design in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are illustrated in 10, where the author uses the dragon on the mirror as a dated comparable for blue and white porcelains of the same period.Ĭompare also the very similar mirror in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated on the museum's website, accession number 12.816. Ming Qing ciqi jianding (Connoisseurship of Ming and Qing Porcelains), Beijing, 1993, p. Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2003, lot 640 (part lot)īronze mirror of this design and cast with a Hongwu 22nd year date is well-known, but it is very rare to see one cast with the inscriptionīei jian, which may be translated as 'northern mountain stream.'Ĭompare the very similar bronze mirror in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Geng Baochang in
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