Export Gilt-bronze Hand Mirror

Description:

Export Gilt-bronze Hand Mirror, China, 20th century, floriform mirror with an elongated oval handle, the mirror back decorated in relief with flowers, insects, and grains in a floral border, jeweled with rectangular and circular jade stone and glass bead insets of various sizes, the handle decorated in relief with floral and foliate designs divided in two sections on front and back, ht. 10 5/8, mirror dia. 5 1/8 in.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

in good condition with some residues of cleaning substance, metal tarnishing to some area.


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