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Mirror

Gallery Location
Not on View
Medium Cast bronze
Geography
China
Date 3rd century BC
Period Eastern Zhou-Western Han Dynasty
Dimensions 17.5 cm
Object number 930.21.121
Credit Line Bishop William C. White Collection
Collection
Description
Round flat mirror of silvery colour.  Rim concave with raised outer edge. Small loop in circular centre surrounded by 4 raised rings and narrow band of slanting lines and wide concave band framed by band of slanting lines.  Main decorative band, in wide linear relief, of dragon arabesques (dragons, with some incised interior details) on ground of fine lined spirals and contained by raised rings and narrow band of slanting lines.  Tails of dragons curve over encircling raised ring. 
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