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
Department
Art & Culture: China
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.
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