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Mirror with Deities and Animals in Concentric Circles
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About this work
Inscription: The mirror's light shows the man inside. May you live a long life and [constantly] renew yourself.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMirror with Deities and Animals in Concentric Circles (重圈神獸鏡), late 500s–early 600s. China, Sui dynasty (581-618). Bronze; diameter: 33.4 cm (13 1/8 in.); overall: 1.6 cm (5/8 in.); rim: 0.9 cm (3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.337
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