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In relief a winding dragon and clouds on a wave pattern background with a cartouche containing the inscription "made on a day in the fifth month of the twenty-second year of Hongwu" (=1390). Shiny black lacquer patina. On the reverse the number 504.XV in black ink and a paper label with a description and the collector's number 20. Diameter 10,8 cm Collection J. J. Wilgaard, Apenrade, sold at J. M. Heberle (H. Lempertz' S?hne), Cologne, 16.-19.12.1901, lot 504 Collection Franz Xaver Bachem (1857-1936), Cologne, acquired at the above auction, documented 19.12.1901 Illustrated in: Bachem 1933, plate 75. This is a well-known mirror type and many such examples habe been published, see for example R. Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London 1990, p. 100.