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Circular Mirror with Linked Arcs, Four Bosses, Abstract Decoration, and Central Boss in the Form of a Mountain Peak

Circular Mirror with Linked Arcs, Four Bosses, Abstract Decoration, and Central Boss in the Form of a Mountain Peak

Chinese

This circular bronze mirror has a border of sixteen unembellished linked arcs. The decorated field is sunken. There is a very narrow inner border of radiating straight lines. Within the main decorated field there are four main bosses, each one on a circular field with a ten-point star pattern. Between the four bosses, there are scrolling lines in relief that connect smaller bosses, which lack the circular field surrounding the larger bosses. The central knob suggests a mountain with several peaks. The reflecting side of the mirror has been highly polished.

Cast bronze

Han dynasty, Western Han period, 206 BCE-9 CE

Mirrors