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Mirror with Four Running Animals
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About this work
Inscription: I received a gift: the mirror of the King of Qin. For this, I would have paid willingly a thousand taels of silver. In no way would I use it to unveil your hidden desires. Verily, I only wish to lay bare my own heart.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMirror with Four Running Animals (瑞獸鏡), early 600s. China, Tang dynasty (618–907). Bronze; diameter: 9.6 cm (3 3/4 in.); overall: 0.9 cm (3/8 in.); rim: 0.7 cm (1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Drs. Thomas and Martha Carter in Honor of Sherman E. Lee, 1995.338
