CHINA, ancient bronze mirror brush handle
$55.00
CHINA, SHANXI, HAN, c. 200-100 BC, mirror brush handle, a long rod, pierced near one end, slightly decorated at the piercing, with a tiny shovel behind the hole & a little cup for the brush bristles at the other end, trace of gold plating on bronze, 122mm long, 8mm wide, socket is ~5mm diameter, ~6mm deep, 16.39g, F
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Description
Mirrors are fairly common Chinese artifacts, but I have only seen one brush. The fastidious would use a soft brush to clean the delicate mirror surface. A cloth would produce hairlines, eventually the mirror wouldn’t work anymore.
China is like the world: it has everything in it. The current evidence shows that there were people “everywhere” by about 12,000 years ago. In China they started writing stuff down about 5000 years ago, roughly the same time as Egypt and Sumer. The Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations are gone, but China is still here.
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
