20th century AD. A bronze mirror, the back with a ribbed central loop encircled by a concave band, the outer field with three large shan characters alternating with two deer and a dog wearing a collar, all reserved on a ground of hook-like scrolls and granulation and enclosed within raised edges. Cf. Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 16 - Bronze Mirrors, Beijing, 1998, p.21, no.21 for a similar mirror in a Paris collection; cf. Karlgren, B., Early Chinese Bronze Mirrors: Classification Scheme Recapitulated, BMFEA, Stockholm, 1968, no.40, pl.22 (C 55), for another similar mirror in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities; cf. O'Donoghue, D.M., Reflection and Reception: The Origins of the Mirror in Bronze Age China, BMFEA, Stockholm, 1990, no.62, p.166, fig.64, for a third comparable example.955 grams, 21cm (8 1/4"). Property of a London doctor; previously in the collection of her husband by inheritance; formerly acquired during travels in the Far East during the 1920s.[No Reserve]