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TLV Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces

125–1 BCE · bronze

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Inscription: In great joy and fortune, May you obtain your heart's desire. Through thousands of autumns and myriad years, May you live a lasting life.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description

Credit lineTLV Mirror with Serpentine Interlaces (蟠螭紋博局式鏡), 125–1 BCE. China, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Bronze; diameter: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.); overall: 1 cm (3/8 in.); rim: 0.5 cm (3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.283

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