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Circular Mirror with Decoration of the Animals of the Four Quadrants, the Eight Trigrams, and Flying Apsarases
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Department of Asian Art
[Edgar Worch vorm. Ludwig Glenk Antiquitäten Berlin January 6 1931] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop New York (1931-1943) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1943.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Title: Circular Mirror with Decoration of the Animals of the Four Quadrants, the Eight Trigrams, and Flying Apsarases
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