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Mirror

Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium Cast bronze
Geography
China
Date 25-220 AD
Period Eastern Han Dynasty
Dimensions 13.4 cm
Object number 927.19.19
Credit Line Bishop William C. White Collection
Collection
Description

Round mirror of silvery colour. Plain slightly raised rim with outward slanting edge. Hemispherical knob on raised disk and quatrefoil seat also 4 characters between; Jun Yi Guang Zhi "May your highness have office and rank" (Karlgren). Wide band of raised concatenated arcs contain central area. Small sections of silver show through patches of granular green and sandy colour corrosion, extensive corrosion on face.

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