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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
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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