Important Chinese Art including Jades from the De An Tang Collection and Gardens of Pleasure – Erotic Art from the Bertholet Collection
Important Chinese Art including Jades from the De An Tang Collection and Gardens of Pleasure – Erotic Art from the Bertholet Collection
Property from the Bertholet Collection 貝氏情色藝術珍藏
A bronze 'erotica' mirror Song dynasty | 宋 青銅風月圖方鏡
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Property from the Bertholet Collection
A bronze 'erotica' mirror
Song dynasty
貝氏情色藝術珍藏
宋 青銅風月圖方鏡
9.7 by 9.7 cm
Ferry M. Bertholet, Concubines and Courtesans: Women in Chinese Erotic Art, Brussels, 2010, pl. 65.
貝索烈，《Concubines and Courtesans: Women in Chinese Erotic Art》，布魯塞爾，2010年，圖版65
See a similar mirror included in the exhibition Behind the Chinese Mirror: The Art of the Mirrorsmith in Pre-Ming China, Priestley & Ferraro Chinese Art, London, 2003, cat. no. 12, where the author states that this type of minimalistic design came into fashion after the fall of the Tang dynasty.
此風月圖鑑背面飾四對男女，逕自交歡，姿態不一，恣情纏綿。相類方鏡，可參考《Behind the Chinese Mirror: The Art of the Mirrorsmith in Pre-Ming China》展覽中例，覺是軒，倫敦，2003年，編號12，作者指此類簡潔構圖，唐後已漸流行。