Bronze Mirror with Hunting Scene from Kyrgyzstan
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Post by Druzhina on Jan 12, 2022 13:28:06 GMT 3
In the Kyrgyzstan section of The Artistic Culture of Central Asia and Azerbaijan in the 9th-15th centuries. Volume III. Toreutics. — Samarkand-Tashkent: IICAS, 2012 is this mirror:
C-85 and XLV
p.108, "The popular Iranian-Sassanian scene with a horseman fighting with predators was reflected in a bronze mirror with a small handle (ill. XLV) from the neighbourhood of the site Krasnorechenskoye. The master did not only copy the hunting scene he liked, but accomplished it in a certain fantasy manner, enriching it with additional elements. The figure of a horseman turning back to shoot from a bow is well-worked; it occupies almost the whole centre of the composition. However, the figures of attacking predators and the dog with a collar at the legs of the horse, ‘squeezed’ into the remaining segments, are represented schematically, in the manner of the ‘Scythian animal style’."
Does anyone have any more information on this, such as dating, where it is kept, and where and by whom it may have been produced?
Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers
C-85 and XLV
p.108, "The popular Iranian-Sassanian scene with a horseman fighting with predators was reflected in a bronze mirror with a small handle (ill. XLV) from the neighbourhood of the site Krasnorechenskoye. The master did not only copy the hunting scene he liked, but accomplished it in a certain fantasy manner, enriching it with additional elements. The figure of a horseman turning back to shoot from a bow is well-worked; it occupies almost the whole centre of the composition. However, the figures of attacking predators and the dog with a collar at the legs of the horse, ‘squeezed’ into the remaining segments, are represented schematically, in the manner of the ‘Scythian animal style’."
Does anyone have any more information on this, such as dating, where it is kept, and where and by whom it may have been produced?
Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers
