Circular Double-Tier Mirror with Domed, Openwork Decoration of Intertwined Snake-Dragons

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: 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

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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Art Museums" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2005), Unpublished, pp. 1-25 passim

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