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Mirror

Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium Cast bronze
Geography
China
Date 960-1279 AD
Period Song Dynasty
Dimensions 14.6 cm
Object number 930.21.239
Credit Line Bishop William C. White Collection
Collection
Description
Round mirror of shiny silver colour with plain wide and slightly rounded rim. Tiny loop (modern/late addition?) set on top of a flowering trunk in low relief, filling upper half of mirror.  Tree "growing" from 2 wavy lines ending in C curls suggesting clouds.  Green encrustation on parts of tree foliage and some on rim. 
Mirror
Mirror - 930.21.239_2
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