Mirror, TLV type

Accession Number
1961/2.67

Title
Mirror, TLV type

Artist(s)
Chinese

Artist Nationality
Chinese (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
206 BCE - 220 CE

Medium & Support
bronze with azurite and black patina

Dimensions
3/16 in. x 4 3/4 in. x 4 3/4 in. ( 0.4 cm x 12.1 cm x 12.1 cm )

Credit Line
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection

Label copy
Mirrors had a sacred significance for the early Chinese, as their shiny round surfaces were able to capture the light of the sun. The center of this mirror is decorated with a circle-within-a-square, a cosmological diagram. Around the perimeter stride two tigers and two griffin-like mythological creatures.
Maribeth Graybill, Senior Curator of Asian Art
Exhibited in "Flora and Fauna in Chinese Art," April 6, 2002 - December 1, 2002.

Primary Object Classification
Metalwork

Primary Object Type
mirror

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Keywords
dragon
lions
mirrors

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