1943.52.150: Circular Double-Tier Mirror with Domed, Openwork Decoration of Intertwined Snake-Dragons
Mirrors
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.52.150
- Title
- Circular Double-Tier Mirror with Domed, Openwork Decoration of Intertwined Snake-Dragons
- Classification
- Mirrors
- Work Type
- mirror
- Date
- 5th-3rd century BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204309
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cast bronze
- Dimensions
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Diam. 13.9 cm (5 1/2 in.)
Weight 595 g
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Grenville L. Winthrop purchased from Yamanaka & Co., New York (May 1934)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.52.150
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Sueji Umehara, Shina-Kodo Seikwa (Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America), Yamanaka & Co. (Osaka, Japan, 1933), vol. 4, pl. 1
- Sueji Umehara, L'Étude sur le Miroir Antérieur à la Dynastie des "HAN", The Academy of Oriental Culture, Kyoto Institute (Kyoto, 1935), pl. XXXII
- Kazuo Miyamoto, "The Warring States Age's Bronze Mirrors of the Winthrop Collection at Harvard University Art Museums", Bulletin of the Sumitomo Collection (Sen-Oku Hakuko Kan) (Kyoto, October 2000), XVII, pp. 47-67, pp. 65-66, pl. 5-2
- Susan Costello, "An Investigation of Early Chinese Bronze Mirrors at the Harvard University Art Museums" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2005), Unpublished, pp. 1-25 passim
Verification Level
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