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Mirror

Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium Cast bronze
Geography
China
Date 770-221 BC
Period Eastern Zhou Dynasty
Dimensions 8.7 cm
Object number 960.234.57
Credit Line The Dr. James M. Menzies Collection
Collection
Description
Thin round mirror with slightly concave rim and fine raised edge. Small fluted loop set in square with depressed square band with narrow outline with raised ridge. Decorative zone with 4 large slightly depressed slanting Ts, their cross bars with grooved outline. Petal with raised outline and central rib projecting from each corner of central square opposite similar petal projecting from rim ledge between each T. Background of very fine parallel and spiral lines and granulation. Depressed decoration yellow-green; face mottled.
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