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Mirror with Clouds and Nebulae
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About this work
Mirrors provided literal reflection and were decorated with symbolic imagery that illuminated universal themes.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMirror with Clouds and Nebulae (星雲鏡), 200–100 BCE. China, Western Han dynasty (206 BCE–8 CE). Bronze; diameter: 10 cm (3 15/16 in.); overall: 1.2 cm (1/2 in.); rim: 0.4 cm (3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.288
