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Mirror

Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium Cast bronze
Geography
China
Date 25 - 220 AD
Period Eastern Han dynasty
Dimensions 9.2 cm
Object number 931.13.225
Credit Line Bishop William C. White Collection
Collection
Description
Round, thin mirror of silvery colour. Plain rim slanting inwards very slightly and edge with outward slant.  Hemispherical knob set on disk with raised edge, and framing curvilinear square with raised rings in each "corner" and bat-like forms in flat relief extending from corners to surrounding raised line.  Spaces between "bats" with trefoil surmounting C curl that forms part of vine like curving line.  Thin green and yellowish brown encrustation on half of rim, face with thicker patches and small shiny silvery area.
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