Mirror
Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium
Cast bronze
Geography
Reportedly from Luoyang, Henan province, China
Date
475-221 BC
Period
Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Warring States Period
Dimensions
16.9 cm
Object number
934.17.273
Credit Line
Bishop William C. White Collection
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: China
Description
Round flat mirror with shiny black finish. Concave rim with thin raised, rounded raised edge. Loop set in slightly depressed circular centre framed by concave band and narrower one. Main decorative band in wide, flat linear relief of 3 dragons in arabesque design. Dragons with elaborate incised details, large eyes, spirals and volutes. On ground of fine lined spirals showing high quality of casting, and bordered by very narrow concave band. Rim with relief, very shiny black, ground greyish, shiny black face.
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