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Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces
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About this work
The mirror was cast in a ceramic mold. The concave concentric circles were polished while the remainder of the cast design received no finishing.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMirror with Serpentine Interlaces, early 500s–late 300s BCE. China, Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), Warring States period (475–221 BCE). Bronze; diameter: 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.); overall: 0.5 cm (3/16 in.); rim: 0.3 cm (1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.268
