A silvered bronze circular mirrorQin to early Western Han dynastywith box,15.5cm diam.Provenance: Provenance:C. C. Teng, Taipei, no.002418 (label)秦至西漢早期 蟠虺紋鎏銀銅鏡 及盒傳承：臺北慎德堂，編號 002418（標簽）The stylisedpanchi-motif, a coiled dragon with no feet, is quintessential of the Qin and early Han dynasty. Many similar mirrors are seen in numerous important collections,pare with one previously in the Robert Ellsworth collection, albeit larger, see Christie's New York, 22 Mar 2012, lot 1407, and another one in the collection of Xianyang Municipal Museum, which was exhibited withThe First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors, Art Gallery of New South Wales. See the exhibition catalogue, Liu Yang and Edmund Capon, Sydney, 2010, p.175, no.115, and also one illustrated inThe Museum of East Asian Art: Inaugural Exhibition Volume 2 Chinese Metalwares and Decorative Arts, Bath, 1993, p.75, pl.271如此銅鏡中抽象的蟠虺紋，是秦到西漢早期典型的紋飾。類似銅鏡可見各大重要收藏，如安思遠舊藏中一枚，只比此銅鏡略大且無鎏銀，見佳士得紐約，2012年3月22日，拍品1407號。見另一類似銅鏡，咸陽博物院藏，曾於2010年參展紐省博物館「秦始皇及其地下大軍」，見展覽圖錄，Liu Yang and Edmund Capon, 悉尼，2010年，頁175，圖版115；又一刊登于The Museum of East Asian Art: Inaugural Exhibition Volume 2 Chinese Metalwares and Decorative Arts, 巴斯，1993年，頁75，圖版271。