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Mirror with Deities and Animals Surrounded by Rings of Squares and Semicircles
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About this work
Inscription: I made this bright mirror by refining the three metals. Then I sculpted infinite forms.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMirror with Deities and Animals Surrounded by Rings of Squares and Semicircles (半圓方枚環繞式神獸鏡), 175–225 CE. China, Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). Bronze; diameter: 11.8 cm (4 5/8 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, 1995.326
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