Description

A round bronze mirror of silvery color.  The side is created in a design of 16 continuous arc with flat tops.  A fluted loop rises in the square centre.  Square centre framed by concave double outline.  Trefoil in fleur de lys design and linear relief projects from each corner of the square centre.  Decorative zone with four large nipples on dishes joins the side of the central square frame with two "petals" and to the scallops by an extending "stem" and a pointed petal.  Each boss is flanked by abstract designs in parallel lines suggesting bird wings.  Green corrosion product appears on both surfaces.  Han (West)] [NB 96: Bronze mirror, border of sixteen scallops, ribbon-like boss enclosed in square, central design, four bosses, four corner scrolls resembling fleurs de lys, and eight other figures.  Animal form.  Eastern Han (Umehara). Sm.Franck & Co. #1715. Aug.14, 1909.]