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Circular Mirror with Relief Decoration of Four Stylized Dragons and Quatrefoil against a Ground of Volutes within a Border of Linked Arcs
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Department of Asian Art
Grenville L. Winthrop purchased from Yamanaka & Co. New York (February 1938)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Title: Circular Mirror with Relief Decoration of Four Stylized Dragons and Quatrefoil against a Ground of Volutes within a Border of Linked Arcs
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