Mirror
Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium
Cast bronze
Geography
China
Date
206 BC-220 AD
Period
Han dynasty
Dimensions
12.5 cm
Object number
960.234.102
Credit Line
The Dr. James M. Menzies Collection
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: China
Description
Round mirror with wide inward slanting rim of 4 bands of edge slanting outward. Plain band around 3 with saw-tooth pattern. Hemispherical knob set on disk in square with 4 petals, their points projecting into corners and framing depressed square band with raised edges. Surrounding decoration of 8 tiny nipples on disks with raised edges and depressed TLV pattern with raised edges. 4 pairs of outward facing birds in thread relief. Narrower surrounding band within raised rings with 10 character inscription inside a striated band. Casting lacking sharpness on parts of rim. Patina grey green with some silvery areas and thin green corrosion product, thicker on face, otherwise shiny silver colour.
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