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Mirror

Gallery Location
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China
Medium Silver
Geography
China
Date 618-907 AD
Period Tang Dynasty
Dimensions 0.9 x 7.2 cm
Object number 930.21.104
Credit Line Bishop William C. White Collection
Collection
Description

Round mirror of silvery colour. Concave inward slanting rim with higher outer edge. Pierced, crouching animal forming knob with its fur indicated by rows of rimy parallel dots. Surrounding animals (running foxes?) in rounded relief. Spaces with 4 elongated cloud symbols, 2 very small raised rings, reeds, and grasses on a ground of stamped circles within a raised ring. Decoration around rim of 8 birds, in different positions, in rounded relief and loose leaves small cloud symbols and tiny raised ring, on ground of stamped circles. Highest parts of relief shiny silvery grey colour, depressed areas with reddish sandy corrosion product. Face sandy colour with small patches of silver showing through.

Mirror
Mirror - 930.21.104_2
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