Date: Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Provenance: Unearthed in Fugou county, Henan province, 1963
Measurements: Diameter: 28.5 cm

Hunting was incredibly popular during the Tang Dynasty, and so found representation on various objects, among which bronze mirrors featuring hunting scenes help to offer insight into the social trends and aesthetic tastes of the Tang era. 

The eight-lobed bronze mirror features a hunting scene of four hunters mounted on galloping horses pursuing various prey around a semi-spherical knob, with one weilding a spear, targeting a bear, another with a bow in pursuit of a hare, a third chasing an evading boar while simultaneously turning back to shoot the hare, and the fourth urging his horse forward in pursuit of a deer. 

Motifs of trees and mountains punctuate the hunting scene, while birds, insects and flowers adorn the periphery of the mirror. These elements collectively generate a dynamic ambience that are reminiscent of the first two lines of Watching the Hunt (Guan lie), a pentasyllabic poem by the 8th-century Chinese poet Wang Wei: "the horn-bow sings in strong winds, the general hunting outside the city of Wei."